HULK-ING PRESENCE: Hulk Hogan announces Impact Wrestling's next match. Credit: Chris Girandola

HULK-ING PRESENCE: Hulk Hogan announces Impact Wrestling’s next match. Credit: Chris Girandola

HULK-ING PRESENCE: Hulk Hogan announces Impact Wrestling’s next match. Credit: Chris Girandola
  • Chris Girandola
  • HULK-ING PRESENCE: Hulk Hogan announces Impact Wrestling's next match.

Midway through Hulk Hogan’s press conference to announce Impact Wrestling’s nationally-televised event on May 23 at the USF Sun Dome, the relaxed evening at Hogan’s Beach restaurant on Clearwater Causeway took a sudden turn, courtesy of Aces & Eights.

Loud voices, flipped-over tables, proclamations and predictions of destruction and ruin, and a stunned Hogan, along with an even more confused crowd ensued. What had been a typical media event suddenly dissipated into a raucous confrontation.

This article appears in Apr 18-24, 2013.