10 Despicable Double Standards We See In WWE

WWE has a knack of rewriting history to fit its own narrative, and it’s a knack that often produces one of the biggest double-standard of all.

On the one hand, we’ve seen Hulk Hogan blackballed from the company following a 2015 scandal in which he was revealed to have made racist and homophobic remarks in his now-infamous leaked sex tape. And on the other, we have WWE lionising the late Ultimate Warrior, despite the fact that he himself had made a series of controversial remarks of his own.

Warrior’s comments included "queering don’t make the world work," his suggestion that the destruction in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina was no big loss, as well as his conclusion that Heath Ledger was "a great father" who "did what it took to kill himself" and remove the "negative influence" from his own child’s life.

Not that the intention here is to vilify the now-deceased Warrior for no reason, nor is it to suggest that Hogan doesn’t deserve to be blackballed. Rather, the issue in this situation revolves around the way the company picks and chooses, and has turned a blind eye to Warrior’s hate speech.

And never was that selectiveness more apparent than in October of this year, when Warrior – who once said that Bobby Heenan’s throat cancer was "karma" – was used as an emblem for a WWE-backed cancer awareness campaign.