10 Times WWE Marketing Was Pure BULLSH*T
5. Moolah's Not So Fabulous Legacy
Pro wrestling is so wild. It is amazing.
Were it not monopolised, and if anybody cared - absolutely nothing has changed, sadly, following John Oliver's verbal blast - sponsors would surely have called for Vince McMahon's head by now. The man lives in more of a bubble than that foul-mouthed youth from Seinfeld because he probably doesn't know what Seinfeld is.
He also doesn't know that the toothpaste is out of the tube, as it pertains to the Fabulous Moolah. We are very aware, from multiple corroborated accounts, that Moolah was the gatekeeper of "lady's wrestling" for decades, and maintained her stranglehold over it by pimping out and enslaving her trainees, who reaped very little financial benefit from the promised life of glamour. Moolah had to get her piece of the cut.
Vince McMahon attempted to name the inaugural Women's Battle Royal after the Fabulous Moolah last year, and had the Women's roster praise Moolah for blazing a trail. In fact, Moolah's rampant, cold-blood removal of artistry from the scene - she cared only about money - prohibited its creative growth. Ironically, Snickers pressured WWE to withdraw the branding following fan outcry. "You're not you when you're hungry," as the slogan goes.
By robbing her trainees of agency and starving them to get her "PC", there's a sliver of poetic justice to all this.