Hulk Hogan says Gawker pulled a bait-and-switch on a Florida jury — promising to pay the wrestling legend $115 million for posting his private sex tape online, then asking a judge to knock down their award to no more than $1 million.

“In Florida, parties are bound by and held to their representations to a jury,” Hogan said in recently filed court papers.

The pro-wrestling legend claims the website used the tactic in a bid for lower punitive damages after the jury decided its $115 million compensatory award in March.

In closing statements for the punitive phase, Gawker attorney Michael Berry told jurors his client took the verdict “very seriously” and “must pay” the $115 million. “Gawker Media owes $115 million,” Berry told the jury at the time.

The jury awarded Hogan an additional $25 million in punitive damages.

A day later, Gawker founder Nick Denton called the trial a “sham” and boasted, “It is a story that we would do again,” referring to posting a sex tape of Hogan with the wife of his then-best friend.

Now Denton is trying to get the whole $140 million award knocked down to $1 million or less.

“Despite mocking this court, the jury, opposing counsel and the judicial process, Gawker defendants have returned to this court asking for additional leniency,” Hogan said in the recent court papers.

A spokesperson for Gawker said, “The notion that Hulk Hogan is owed $140 million for snippets from a sex tape made by his best friend — after he’s made his sex life an open book — is patently absurd to everyone other than his lawyers who want a payday.”

The legal battle started in 2012 after Gawker published secretly recorded footage of Hogan in a 2007 canopy bed romp with Heather Clem.

At the time, Clem was married to Hogan’s pal, radio shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.

Pinellas County Judge Pamela Campbell is expected to rule on Gawker’s request to slash the verdict during a May 25 hearing.