Hulk Hogan’s Funeral Details Revealed—Including What Will Happen to His Body & Which of His Kids May Not Attend
Jason Pham
Hulk Hogan‘s funeral will be held less than two weeks after his death, but at least one member of his immediate family may not be there.
According to the Daily Mail, a memorial service honoring the late professional wrestler will be held on Tuesday, August 4, 2025, at Sylvan Abbey Memorial Park and Funeral Home in Tampa, Florida. Hogan, whose real name was Terry Bollea, will be cremated at Pinellas County Forensic Center in Clearwater, Florida, though a specific date for his cremation hasn’t been announced.
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“I’m not aware of when Mr. Bollea will be cremated, only that we’ve received a request for cremation approval,” a spokesperson for the cremation center told Page Six.
While many loved ones are expected to attend Hogan’s celebration of life, one family member who may not be there is Hogan’s daughter, Brooke, whom he shared with his ex-wife, Linda Hogan. (Hulk and Linda were married from 1983 to 2009.) While Brooke hasn’t confirmed whether she will or won’t attend Hulk’s funeral, she was missing from the WWE SummerSlam 2025 event in New Jersey held two days after her father’s death. SummerSlam was, however, attended by Hogan’s son and Brooke’s brother, Nick, who applauded and appeared to fight back tears during a tribute at the event.
After the event, Brooke explained why she didn’t attend the tribute, claiming that WWE didn’t invite her. “For those of you giving me crap for not attending my Dad’s tributes, @wwe did not extend an invite,” she wrote in an Instagram Story.
Brooke also shared another post at the time detailing her and her father’s complicated relationship. “My dad’s blood runs through my veins. His eyes shine through my children. Our bond has never broken, not even in his final moments,” she wrote. “We had a connection deeper than words, one that spanned lifetimes. I am so grateful I knew the real version of him. Not just the one the world viewed through a carefully curated lens. We shared a quiet, sacred bond, one that could be seen and felt by anyone who witnessed us together. When he left this earth, it felt like part of my spirit left with him. I felt it before the news even reached us.”
Elsewhere in her statement, Brooke addressed where she and her father stood at the time of his death. “We never had a ‘big fight.’ My father and I never ‘fought,'” she wrote. “It was a series of private phone calls no one will ever hear, know, or understand. My father was confiding in me about issues weighing on his heart, both personal and business. I offered to be a life raft in whatever capacity he needed. I told him he had my support.”
She continued, “I begged him to rest, to take care of himself. He had nothing else to prove to the world or anyone. My husband and I moved down to Florida to be near him. He was getting older. I wanted to be there as much as possible. We had been through almost 25 surgeries together, and then all of a sudden he didn’t want me at surgeries… everything started getting covered in a thick veil. It was like there was a force field around him that I couldn’t get through.”
She ended her statement with a dedication to Hogan’s fans. “I’m deeply grateful for the love, tributes, and memorials from his fans and friends,” she wrote. “His life was one worth celebrating—and always will be.”
Hogan died on July 24 from cardiac arrest. He was 71 years old. He had also been diagnosed with leukemia at the time of his passing. He was taken ill from his home in Clearwater to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
