10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About 2018

3. Hulk Hogan's "Sorry, Not Sorry"

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After three years begging on the porch like a whining wet dog - minus any of the deserving sympathy - Hulk Hogan was finally brought back in from the cold by WWE this past July. The depressingly inevitable reconciliation wasn't to everybody's tastes.

Hogan's name was hastily scrubbed from WWE history books in 2015 after the National Enquirer leaked a sex tape of The Hulkster. Though obviously stomach churning, it wasn't the sight of Hulk's less-than 24 inch python in the video nasty which left company officials aghast, but rather a stupefying diatribe in which the WWE legend repeated extreme racial epithets.

Ahead of July's Extreme Rules pay-per-view - with one eye firmly on the pot of gold being offered by their new Saudi partners - Hogan was reinstated into the WWE Hall of Fame and invited backstage to make amends. For the sake of posterity - and absolutely not a Network special documenting his redemptive arc - the whole apology was recorded.

It didn't go down well - even amongst WWE's superstars. Several names from a locker room which normally knows when to fall in line (i.e. always) criticised Hogan for his apparent lack of contrition, albeit couching their comments with a tone of resigned acceptance. Sure enough, three months later, Hogan was trotted out before an appreciative Riyadh crowd as though he'd done no wrong.

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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.