Jim Ross Says Hulk Hogan’s Legacy Should Not Be That He Made Racist Remarks

In a new blog post on his official website, JRsBarBQ.com, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross says Hulk Hogan’s legacy should not be that he made racist remarks in 2006, but what he’s accomplished outside of that mistake. As previously reported, Hogan was fired by WWE in regards to the public leak of racial slurs he made during a secretly filmed sex tape with Heather Clem in 2006.

Ross writes the following in light of the Hogan controversy,

“Biggest news story of the day is the Hulk Hogan racist remarks controversy. I’m not sure what I’m expected to say about this sad and unfortunate matter except that there is obviously no place in our world for racism or racist banter. 

Hulk made a grievous error in judgment, a major mistake, that he will have to live with this rest of his days. One can only hope that every one who this matter touches can learn from it and move forward in a positive manner. The WWE acted quickly and decisively in this matter to which they are to be commended.

In any organization, there should be zero tolerance for matters such as this along with domestic violence and, to a large degree, drug policy violations, as well. The only way changes that are needed in our society can evolve is to penalize the offenders as severely as the law will allow so that those that follow think twice or three times before traveling down the same road.

It will intriguing as to how Hogan will attempt to rehabilitate his damaged image and what the future holds for him. We live in a forgiving society when those that want forgiveness and hopefully that will be the case here over the course of time. No one should celebrate the misery of others nor can these transgressions go unaddressed.

Being human, we all make mistakes and all we can hope to accomplish from those errors is to never make them again and to learn from them as well. Hopefully, after his long and memorable career within the squared circle, Hulk Hogan’s lasting legacy will not be that of his actions that have come to light in the past several hours.”

You can read the entire blog post here.

Editor’s Note:

I’m with Ross. I understand that WWE had to act, and there’s no justification for making remarks like Hogan made, but we’re all human, and we’ve all (and will continue to) made mistakes. Again…I can only imagine the controversy that would stem from secret cameras filming Vince McMahon at all times. Can you?