Vince McMahon is no stranger to controversy, and he’s not about to stop now. The 79-year-old former owner of WWE decided to defend Hulk Hogan’s racist past one more time — and he didn’t get the reception he expected.
Hulk Hogan was outed during his successful case against Gawker in 2007. Hogan was initially in court to sue the publication for releasing a sex tape the former wrestler was part of. Although Hogan ended up making a fortune from the case, the transcripts revealed him using epithets to describe Black people. He specifically expressed disappointment in his daughter dating a Black man and said he’d rather she dated a Black man who was an athlete because at least he would be making a lot of money. That transcript ended up marring the wrestler’s legacy until his very last days.
