The professional wrestling lexicon has officially evolved this week, as the term “X-Pac Heat” — long used to describe crowd reactions of pure disdain not rooted in storyline — has been rebranded as “Hogan Heat” in the wake of Hulk Hogan’s polarizing reception on the Netflix debut of WWE Raw.

Hogan was mercilessly booed after his opening words of “Let me tell you something, brother,” — to which the Los Angeles audience responded with a resounding “No, let us tell YOU something.”

Merriam-Webster updated its online dictionary this morning, adding “Hogan Heat” as a noun to describe “overwhelming audience disapproval, often stemming from perceived arrogance, dishonesty, character flaws and/or overexposure.” In an unprecedented move, the dictionary also cross-referenced “X-Pac Heat” as “archaic,” with a note that it had been “superseded by Hogan Heat in 2025.”

“It’s rare for a cultural phenomenon to demand this kind of linguistic shift,” said wrestling journalist and cunning linguist Dan Mutzler. “But X-Pac has carried this burden long enough, and Hogan is clearly a better namesake for that kind of heat.

In a delicious twist of irony, Sean “X-Pac” Waltman received an enormous positive ovation when he appeared on the same episode of Raw during which Hogan usurped him to become the namesake of bad heat.

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