A sweating Mayor Rob Ford, the back of his hand nearing the table, pulled off another comeback Friday to beat Hulk Hogan at arm-wrestling.

At a downtown hotel, the pair was introduced in showman style for the media-only “friendly” match to hype pro wrestling legend Hogan’s appearance at the Fan Expo Canada convention.

Hogan came out first. to cheers. Ford then emerged to the strains of “Eye of the Tiger” and dramatically shucked his suit jacket and tie and untucked his blue dress shirt.

As soon as the match started, Hogan levered back Ford’s arm. Visibly straining, the mayor grabbed the edge of the small table with his other arm. Hogan, not visibly straining, started the trash talk.

“Oh big man, that’s all you got, huh? You know something, not only am I going to rip this arm off, I’m going to take your job while I’m at it, brother. They’re going to call me Mayor Hogan!” he said.

Ford gamely managed: “I own this town, man!”

Suddenly, Hogan’s arm slackened and Ford pounded it to the table.

The beaming mayor leaped to his feet and raised his arms in victory as Hogan cradled his massive bicep and groaned.

“Wow, that was a setup,” Hogan exclaimed before lifting Ford’s arm in victory. “Good job, mayor — number one Hulkamaniac right here, guys,” Hogan said to applause, as the mayor wiped his face with a towel.

As they walked out of the room, Hogan had one final quip: “The sun was in my eyes!”

Later, as Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, walked to a waiting SUV outside, people peppered him with questions.

“Do you think the crack tape is real?” one shouted, referring to video viewed by Star reporters that apparently shows Ford smoking crack cocaine. (Ford says he doesn’t smoke crack and no such video exists.)

Hogan, who suffered the embarrassing leak of his sex tape last year, replied: “I’m hungry.”

Hogan said Ford seems like “a really nice guy” who, as a kid, watched Hogan wrestle.

Asked about Councillor Doug Ford, the mayor’s look-alike brother who also met Hogan before the event, the grappler said: “I didn’t know who was who. I thought I was going to get sneak-attacked.”

Ford’s wrestling name would be “The Fantastic Ford,” Hogan said, adding: “I’d love to be the mayor here. I love this city.”

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Ford, also mobbed while leaving, joked in response to Hogan’s political ambitions: “Everyone else does too, so I’ll take him on, no problem.’

Asked how he won, Ford said: “I never back down and I never will. It’s all in the wrist.”