By James Caldwell, Torch assistant editor

Hulk Hogan says that if he can "turn TNA into the monster" that Vince McMahon created with WWE, he wants to offer TNA wrestlers health benefits beyond what WWE is offering.

"There's a ton of stuff that needs to be done – from health care to profit sharing to insurance – just mechanical stuff that should be in place when people put their lives on the line and give up their time and dedicate themselves to the business," Hogan said in his IGN interview today.

Hogan says he wants to change his approach to the business-side of wrestling after not being "good enough" in the first-half of his wrestling career. He's calling his TNA run a second chance in the wrestling business to give back.

"For the first half of the game I did things really good, but not good enough. This is the second half of the game and now I realize what I had and how important this is," Hogan told IGN.com.

In February, while unaffiliated with WWE or TNA, Hogan told the Los Angeles Times that he wants to be "the guy that actually changes the business" by protecting wrestlers. (Read the Feb. L.A. Times interview.)

"The business was really good to me, but there needs to be a way to harness that energy that can destroy quality life," Hogan said in the interview with the Los Angeles Times. "In thinking about how much I love the business in the twilight of my career, I would like to be involved."

"I would like to get into a situation there was actually a union, guys actually had insurance and profit-sharing," Hogan said in February. "I would love to be a part of something that could at least control ... I wouldn't work the guys to death ... that would change all that," he said.

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