10 Times WWE Were Shamelessly Exploitative

9. Hogan Returns

Melanie Pillman Vince Raw Interview 1997
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Apparently WWE had Jo Moore on the staff around the time the company was embroiled in their Crown Jewel disgrace in November 2018.

Vince McMahon's decision to push ahead with the proposed Saudi Arabia show, even once it had emerged that Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi had likely been executed at the hands of government officials, was met with widespread, justifiable opprobrium. But apparently the cash-grab alone wasn't distasteful enough.

Aside from trying to palliate the palaver, WWE instead considered the desert a good place to bury the bad news of Hulk Hogan's return following his own racism-related scandal. The Hulkster was sneaked back on screen in Saudi Arabia, a soft relaunch on his WWE career whilst the world's media were distracted by the event's more substantial overcoat of enormity. It almost seemed like an act of spite.

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