Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan saved a teenage girl from a gnarly car accident in Florida.
According to TMZ, Hogan was an eyewitness to a car collision that happened on a highway in Clearwater, Florida, on Sunday night.
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Gene Bollea, was driving on the same expressway with his wife, Sky Daily, and their Marine buddy Jake, when they watched a car flip.
The 70-year-old former WWE star pulled over and sprang into action to assist the 17-year-old driver trapped inside the overturned red SUV.
Per @TMZ, Hulk Hogan helped rescue a woman involved in a bad car accident. pic.twitter.com/VDYKiMRmIM
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Hogan and his friend were able to free the girl from the vehicle by popping the inflated airbag with a pen and unfastening her seatbelt.
Paramedics arrived on the scene shortly after the rescue. Hogan and his wife stood alongside, anxiously watching as medical professionals attended to the situation.
Daily, Hogan’s wife, took to social media to share her account of the incident.
“Last night, after we left dinner in Tampa, we saw a car flip in front of us! I truly admire my husband @hulkhogan and our good buddy @jakerask for springing into action, puncturing the girls airbag, and getting her quickly out of the car,” she wrote.
“By all appearances, she was unscathed, just really rattled, which is an absolute miracle!”
Photos from the scene showcased the severity of the accident, revealing the car turned completely upside down.
According to TMZ, the accident occurred when one of the vehicles involved swerved to reach an off-ramp and inadvertently collided with another car.
The impact resulted in the flipping of the vehicle, ultimately leaving it in an upside-down position.
Hogan, who has recently been baptized at Largo, Florida’s Indian Rocks Baptist Church, said his new found faith is partially responsible for the save.
“The crazy part about the teenager that flipped her car was that without a knife to puncture the airbags to get her out, [an] Indian Rocks Christian ballpoint pen came in really handy to [pop] the [air]bags,” he tweeted on Monday night.
The crazy part about the teenager that flipped her car was that without a knife to puncture the airbags to get her out ,a Indian Rocks Christian ballpoint pen came in really handy to pot the bags,thank you God,all is well even now,Amen HH
— Hulk Hogan (@HulkHogan) January 16, 2024
Hogan isn’t the only celebrity that has been flexing his considerable muscles for good.
“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson mimicked his crime-stopping character when he chased down a car thief in real life.
He told Canada’s CTV network how the incident unfolded during an interview last week.
Ritchson was out with his wife when they both witnessed a the crime happening before their eyes.
“We were on a date in Montreal walking to a very nice dinner all dressed up, and we saw somebody breaking into a car,” Tom Cruise’s successor recalled. “And, like, she put it together before I did.”
@etalkctv Turns out Alan Ritchson is the real-life version of Jack Reacher! 🫢 The star of ‘Reacher’ told us about stopping a real-life robbery in Montréal while on a date with his wife. 👏 #Reacher #AlanRitchson #JackReacher #storytime #interview #DateNight #Montreal
He told the outlet that the thief was “rooting” through the car, surrounded by shattered “glass everywhere,” when he emerged with a handful of bags.
“She goes, ‘I think he’s breaking into that car,’ and I was like, ‘by gosh, I think you’re right.”
Ritchson’s wife immediately knew what his response would be to seeing the crime.
“And she goes, ‘Don’t do it!’ And I was like, ‘Instant Reacher Mode,’ and I was like, ‘Some justice has to be done here,’” he recounted.
“And I chased that dude like four blocks until I tossed him into a building and the cops came.”
Ritchson said that when it was all over, his wife was “very mad at me for not just, like, taking her on our date,” though everything turned out fine when they “got there eventually.”