10 Seedy WWE Stories Vince McMahon Wants You To Forget
7. HulK Hogan's Horsesh*t
No, WWE still haven't forgiven 'The Hulkster' for the hideously racist remarks he made on a secretly-recorded conversation later used as evidence in his trial against former media giant Gawker.com, but Hogan wasn't exactly due too many extra lives after crumbling under scrutiny almost two decades earlier.
Of course Hulk Hogan wasn't the only 1980s WWE Superstar to use drugs - both performance-enhancing and recreational - but he was the one to profit most from gains that were in-part ill-gotten. Furthermore, his panicked decision to lie through his teeth on an instantly infamous Arsenio Hall talk show appearance in 1991 made the situation for both himself and his colleagues substantially worse.
Foolishly attempting to control a narrative on a scandal rapidly spiralling out of control following charges brought against Dr George Zahorian for steroid distribution, Hogan claimed to have only used steroids three times in the 1980s despite the mass disbelief of the viewing audience and Arsenio himself. No exclusive was gleamed from the dejected host that night, but Vince McMahon's 1994 trial revealed the obvious truths and continued the ugly severance of relations between WWE and it's former biggest star for the better part of a decade.