By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor

Hulk Hogan addressed why he hooked up with TNA and what his main motivation is working with TNA during an interview Monday on the Right After Wrestling satellite radio show.

"The real question is 'why Hulk Hogan, why TNA?' That's a question I've always wanted to tell someone, but no one has asked me. The reason I went to TNA, brother, when my wife divorced me. And my son got out of jail. And my daughter moved away. There was a period when I bottomed out... The one thing I had wrestling. The only thing I had left was my life in wrestling, Hogan said.

"Before it was WWE - it's a beautiful open door and sometimes it's great to work there and at other times, it's not. At that time, TNA had their arms wide open and Dixie Carter had wanted me to come to TNA for years. During that time, I made that decision in my mind to go to TNA. And I've never told anyone that."

"Now, when I look at the motivation of being in TNA and I look at the big picture, and I realize I gotta slow down - and I can't push Mondays or throw my weight around... my main motivation is not to keep how wrestling how it used to be, but make wrestling how it should be. And that's it.

"We have to realize there's TV time, and there's commercial breaks, and certain pre-tapes you have to shoot in the back. We watch the numbers. Sometimes the girls do better than the guys. Sometimes a pre-tape in the back does better than a match. Sometimes it gets all mixed up. At the end of day, we're trying to make wrestling what it should be."

Link: TheScore.com for Hogan's interview, picking up at the 28:00 mark.

Caldwell's Analysis: Again, there's no explanation of what "wrestling should be." If it's a Xerox of a copy of a copy of "worked shoot promos" from the late 1990s prevalent on Impact, it isn't working and won't work since there is no foundation to anything TNA present on TV. It's also interesting Hogan admitted he decided to hook up with TNA when he was at rock-bottom in his personal life (and financially). He needed money, TNA was available, and he was able to cash in.

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