Hulk Hogan's life and legacy are complex ... he did lots of great things on his way to the top, but he made lots of mistakes along the way -- including using racial slurs that hurt fans and friends alike.
Hulk once admitted he was a racist and later walked back those comments ... and we look back on the consequences of his well-documented instances of racism in "TMZ Presents: The Real Hulk Hogan."

Hogan was fired from the WWE in 2015 after a sex tape emerged of him using a racist slur in 2007 to describe one of daughter Brooke Hogan's exes.