10 WWE Gimmicks With Racist Undertones

5. Jason Jordan

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A white man having a black son is one big joke to Vince McMahon. Don't believe it? Just ask the white man in question.

Kurt Angle was interviewed on the 2017 storyline, and came clean on The Chairman's vaunted process. Even the performer that once squirted a ring full of wrestlers with a milk hose couldn't believe what he was hearing. As he put it, “You know this was a big prank that Vince had? I looked at him like, 'you’re serious?' When did I get her pregnant, in college? And she was black? The joke is on me but honestly, I’m not going to lie to you, I really hope that this storyline turns into a match with Jason...Watch him perform. He’s up there with AJ Styles... I know that people can’t stand him right now and I’m not sure if it’s because he’s my son, but his performance in the ring, it doesn’t get much better than that.”

Bless the discerning Olympian for trying to carry it over the line. A worker of his incredible caliber may even get there, and Jordan grew phenomenally quickly into the insincere heel role before an unfortunate neck injury derailment. That both worked so diligently to get a lame gag over to the masses is symbolic of WWE's desperately fractured system.

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