Aug 26, 6:00 PM
Wrestling mourns for Dolly Parton along with the rest of the world
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Hulk Hogan and Dolly Parton filming a music video for Dolly Parton's song, "Headlock on My Heart" in 1987. | WWE via Getty Images She didn’t have a lot of ties to the world of pro wrestling, but country music and pop culture icon Dolly Parton was certainly aware of it. She famously told the story of taking her signature style from “the town tramp” her mother called “trash” but who Dolly thought “was the prettiest thing” she ever saw, and who inspired her to say, “that’s what I want to be when I grow up — Trash.” But it’s easy to imagine her inspiring a Ric Flair robe, or vice versa. Parton’s only big crossover into wrestling came via the “Headlock on my Heart” video she shared on her syndicated variety show in the 1980s. The appropriately named D3ath_Knell posted a version in The Feed when they shared the news of Dolly’s death on Cageside yesterday (Aug. 25). That version fell to a copyright strike. We’ll see if this one lasts… Without being in the business itself, Parton made an