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F4WOnline wrote:Hulk Hogan v Gawker Day 2
Hulk Hogan finished his testimony today as the first live witness in the trial of his civil lawsuit against Gawker for publishing excerpts of the sex tape shot without his consent. It got very, very weird. as there ended up being a discussion (video here) between Terry Bollea/Hulk Hogan and Gawker lawyer Michael Sullivan about how the Hulk Hogan character has a bigger penis than Terry Bollea. That admission was pushed as the top story on multiple major newspaper websites, including two in New York.
As for the actual substance of his testimony, the key is Gawker pushing Hogan as an unreliable liar/con-man/worker with Hogan emphasizing his lack of consent and his emotional distress. With the latter, they did a much better job today than yesterday.
Both lawyers (Shane Vogt questioned Hogan on direct and re-direct examination) did excellent jobs with Vogt oozing gravitas and Sullivan coming off as a kindly, almost “Mr. Rogers” sort of guy who was just doing his job.
After Hogan, former TNA press/PR consultant Jules Wortman had her deposition played. TNA continues to be brutalized in the trial, with Wortman saying that “People wanted to talk to Hulk Hogan, they didn’t care about the other talent,” though she did concede that (ex-WWE main eventers) Kurt Angle and Jeff Hardy did well relative to the rest of the roster.
Also, during Hogan’s testimony, they read an email from Dixie Carter (remember, she did PR for 20 years, as amazing as it sounds) almost berating Hogan for making the issue worse with his TMZ appearance post-Gawker article/video install of quelling it.
As a reminder, you can livestream the trial every day.
[David Bixenspan]