Dwayne Johnson says of Hulk Hogan: ‘We’ve all talked trash’

Hogan is suing Gawker for $100 million for posting a video of him having sex with a friend’s then-wife, Heather Clem.

Gawker and its owner, Nick Denton, maintain that the New York-based company had the right to publish the sex video of Hogan because the wrestler, by his sexually explicit banter during media appearances, had lost any expectation of privacy.

Instead, Hogan and his lawyers accuse Gawker of trying to undermine his case against the website by secretly releasing that information or at least playing a role in it being leaked.

Quicker than you could say “fire up and make the hot comeback, kid”, Hogan has bounced back from (literal) trials and tribulations, seemingly living up to his Immortal moniker in more ways than one.

Holding up a printed copy of a 2014 post entitled “How to Leak to Gawker Anonymously”, another defense attorney for Bollea said the web story was proof that Gawker employees “know how to leak anonymously”.

The controversy started when an audio transcript featuring Hogan was released wherein he was seen making racial slurs.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. severed ties with him this week.

The Hulk Hogan versus Gawker smackdown has been put off until next year.

The 61-year-old Hogan has suffered backlash despite apologizing in a statement for using “offensive language”.

The new recordings are from 2008 when Nick Hogan was serving time after a vehicle crash that left his passenger seriously injured.

“We have filed a motion detailing out what we believe to be a number of facts that caused us to have suspicions to Gawker’s involvement”, Bollea’s lawyer, David Houston, confirmed with Fox 411.

It asked that computers, phones and other devices belonging to Gawker be examined by a forensic expert to be determine if there had been contact with the National Enquirer.