10 WWE Storylines That Were Probably Racist

7. Shelton Benjamin vs. Yoshi Tatsu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA0QZTeaG2A Apparently, stuff rolls downhill in WWE. A full five years after being targeted by Orton, Shelton Benjamin openly mocked new Japanese superstar Yoshi Tatsu. In fact, the entire segment consisted of Shelton acting like a Japanese stereotype €“ bowing at everyone, threatening to call Godzilla, speaking in a badly overdubbed movie voice €“ before getting his head kicked off and pinned. Granted, Shelton€™s job was to get Yoshi over, and Matt Striker and Josh Matthews called Benjamin out for making a €œmockery€ of Tatsu, but this was so far over the top. Looks like the WWE€™s Be a STAR program came along two years too late to prevent this.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.