Of all the negatives in WWE this year, the one that might sting more than the others was the revelation that Hall of Famer and wrestling icon Hulk Hogan had used racist slurs in a secretly taped conversation as part of a sex tape. As a result of that rant, WWE fired Hogan and promptly scrubbed him from its history books. Suddenly, many, many watershed moments in wrestling history were taboo. The main event of the first WrestleMania, the biggest match in the history of professional wrestling as Jesse Ventura called the WrestleMania III main event, the formation of the New World Order all were rendered nonexistent as far as WWE was concerned. It would be as if Major League Baseball decided to wipe out any mention of Babe Ruth from its chronicles, or the NBA nixing Michael Jordan. None of this is to say that it isnt deserved given Hogans transgression, but it still is a huge blow to WWE, and not something the company needed at a time when it could use all the star power it could get.
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.