Hulk Hogan claims he received voice note from WWE wrestler two days after his death

Hulk Hogan has made headlines after making a sensational claim that he received a voicemail from follow WWE wrestler ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper - two days after Piper had died.

About the voicemail, speaking to the 700 club, Hogan said [via Mail Online]: “[Piper’s] text message came in two days after he died and it goes, ‘I'm just loving you, my brother. Just walkin' with Jesus. Walkin' with Jesus and loving you, my brother.’ I was like, ‘He would have never said that when he was here.’

“I felt like I got shot in the chest with a cannon. It knocked me off track for a couple of days. It was really weird because I get this voice message, either my phone was messed up. That really spooked me out, to get a voice message from somebody after the passed away.”

While the existence of the voice note itself has been confirmed, as it was played on an episode of WWE Legends, there is no evidence to suggest that Hogan received it after Piper’s death.

Hogan and Piper were locked in a rivalry for much of the 1980s, during the peak of their respective careers. They each headlined the first Wrestlemania in a tag team match - Piper teamed with Paul Orndorff, while Hogan was partnered alongside A-Team star Mr. T.

Piper died in 2015 of a cardiac arrest. He is known as one of the greatest wrestlers to have never held a world title - Hogan, meanwhile, held the WWE title on six occasions.

Hogan has become infamous for making bizarre claims in recent history. He has previously exclaimed that he was the original choice to be the face of the George Foreman grill - he has also claimed that he was approached by Metallica to be their bassist.

Perhaps most strangely, Hogan once claimed he worked ‘400 nights a year’ - using time zone differences between the USA and Japan to justify this claim.