Yes, really. Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan has claimed that he almost joined heavy metal icons Metallica. Can you imagine?

In an interview with The Sun [via the NME], Hogan – who these days also stars in his own TV show, Hogan Knows Best – revealed that he used to be close with Metallica’s Napster-hating drummer Lars Urich in his pre-wrestling days as a session musician.

In the Hulkster’s words, “I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn’t work out.”

All of a sudden Lulu looks pretty normal by comparison.

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