This may come as a shock, but apparently Hulk Hogan isn’t most famous for his intelligent thought-processes.

And that’s not the only shock. Apparently spending your entire career feigning deafness, ripping a series of deliberately flimsy T-shirts in half and calling everyone ‘Hulkamaniac’ regardless of level of mania might – just might – make you say the occasional ill-advised thing. Like, ooh, that if OJ Simpson killed his wife then you can totally sympathise with him because your ex-wife can be a bit of a bitch sometimes too.

Yes. Hulk Hogan said that. To Rolling Stone magazine. On purpose, presumably. Nice chap.

Things haven’t been going so well for Hulk Hogan lately. His son went to prison for driving so ridiculously that his friend will need permanent care for the rest of his life, his wife has left him for a man less than half his age and his daughter looks like a cross between Paris Hilton and an infected shrapnel wound. What’s more, Hulk Hogan’s arms don’t even look like sausages any more. Well, they do, but they’re the ropey-looking European sausages you buy at Lidl. If anything that’s worse.

So, yes, Hulk Hogan is in a bind. So what’s a man to do? Well, he could always tell a popular magazine that he often fantasises about returning to his family home and murdering everyone in the most bloodthirsty way imaginable, just like OJ Simpson was acquitted of doing all those years ago. We’re being serious here. Hulk Hogan told Rolling Stone:

“I could have turned everything into a crime scene, like O.J., cutting everybody’s throat. You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can’t go to anymore, you’re driving through downtown Clearwater and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, and you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife … I totally understand O.J. I get it.”

Even ignoring the fact that professional wrestlers by nature have a worrying habit of going berserk and murdering their families, this is still a monumentally regrettable thing for Hulk Hogan to say. In fact, it might be the most regrettable thing any wrestler has ever done, right up there alongside Mr Nanny and… wait, no, Mr Nanny is the all-time pinnacle of regrettable wrestler decisions and will be forever. Anyway, at least this has given Hulk Hogan’s reps something to choke on their tea and get into a flap over. One of them told Access Hollywood:

“Hulk in no way condones the O.J. situation. As part of a lager conversation, he referred to it to exemplify his frustration with his own situation.”

So that’s that all sorted out then. There’s not going to be a new reality TV show called Hogan Homicide or The Voices In Hogan’s Head Know Best. As ridiculously moronic as Hulk Hogan’s comments were, we all know deep down that he’d never try to kill his wife. Because, seriously, have you seen his wife? She looks like a Terminator crossed with a bulldog, for crying out loud. Hulk’s probably as terrified of her as we are.

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