Hulk Hogan, the larger-than-life wrestling icon whose handlebar mustache and red-and-yellow regalia defined a generation of sports entertainment, peels back the curtain in “My Life Outside the Ring.” The 2009 memoir has returned to bestseller list’s following the wrestler’s death last week.

Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake were longtime wrestling colleagues and friends for nearly 50 years. In 1977, Beefcake, whose real name is Edward Harrison Leslie, made his professional wrestling debut as Ed Boulder alongside Hogan,