It's hard not to blame Vince for his desire to see Hulk Hogan consistently stay an on-again and off-again WWE employee. Hogan was the man who made 40-year old Vince a made man like his father Vince, Sr. as a wrestling promoter. Without Hogan, the idea of taking wrestling from a territorial to national, then global phenomenon would've never happened either. The stain of Hulk Hogan's sad fall from grace ultimately also stains Vince McMahon, too. One can only imagine how many hours Hogan spent with Vince, so one can absolutely presume that McMahon may have known that something was socially amiss with his top star. But then there's that one time when John Cena was called the n-word at Survivor Series 2005 by Vince himself. Oh well. Maybe the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree...
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
