{"id":34425,"date":"2016-11-02T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=34425"},"modified":"2016-11-02T14:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T19:27:01","slug":"hogan-reaches-court-settlement-gawker-gawker-founder-says-hogan-will-live-comfortably-retirement-wkellers-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/11\/02\/hogan-reaches-court-settlement-gawker-gawker-founder-says-hogan-will-live-comfortably-retirement-wkellers-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogan reaches $31 million dollar settlement with Gawker, Gawker founder says Hogan will live comfortably in retirement (w\/Keller&#8217;s Analysis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4179105084\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Hulk Hogan knows what he&#8217;s going to get from his whole Gawker lawsuit over the leaking of his sex tape, as Hogan and Gawker reached a settlement for $31 million, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/03\/business\/media\/gawker-hulk-hogan-settlement.html?_r=0\">reports the New York Times<\/a>. Gawker founder Nick Denton says Hogan&#8217;s retirement &#8220;will be comfortable&#8221; and took some digs at the source of the legal funding for Hogan. &#8220;After four years of litigation funded by a billionaire [Peter Thiel] with a grudge going back even further, a settlement has been reached,&#8221; he wrote in a blog.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As with any negotiation for resolution, all parties have agreed it is time to move on,&#8221; Hogan&#8217;s longtime attorney David Houston said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Denton said that he didn&#8217;t believe pursuing all legal remedies via appeals made sense for him and his company. He felt the ruling of $140 million by a Florida jury was excessive and would have been reduced or eliminated,\u00a0&#8220;but all-out legal war with Thiel would have cost too much, and hurt too many people, and there was no end in sight.&#8221; He said he was just ready to move on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><em>Keller&#8217;s Analysis: I don&#8217;t believe this makes Hogan any more valuable to WWE, but if the settlement was high enough, I could see Hogan agreeing to return to WWE for a lower payday just to &#8220;save face&#8221; and show that he isn&#8217;t still ostracized from the world that he is most famously part of. If I&#8217;m WWE, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a huge stench in being associated with him at this point, but I still find his comments about African-Americans\u00a0personally vile and disqualifying of him being marketed effectively as a hero to children and a warm-fuzzy nostalgia act. I&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s worth the headache for WWE. WWE, though, markets Ultimate Warrior as a hero and an inspirational figure when he has a track record of\u00a0expressing views at least as bad if not worse (certainly more frequent on a wider array of topics) than Hogan&#8217;s, so it can&#8217;t be ruled out, and certainly Hogan is a bigger name by far that Ultimate Warrior. 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