Editor’s update. A spokesman from the beer company has come out and stated unequivocally that the woman’s contract was cancelled for unspecified reasons completely unrelated to her race.
Hulk Hogan abruptly cancelled a contract with a Black female brand ambassador, and folks on Twitter are speculating that it could be because of racial bias.
Hulk, who was caught on tape using the “n word” to describe Black people in the past, hired a female brand ambassador to host events with. It’s not clear whether Hulk or his team realized that the model was Black.
And the events went off without hitch, but Hulk looked a bit comfortable around the woman.
Essence, the model, learned that Hulk’s team replaced her with other models, who were non-Black. Look:
Hulk Hogan is an American retired professional wrestler. He is widely regarded as the most recognized wrestling star worldwide[citation needed] the most popular wrestler of the 1980s, and as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time.
Hogan began his professional wrestling career in 1977, but gained worldwide recognition after signing with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in December 1983. There, his persona as a heroic all-American helped usher in the 1980s professional wrestling boom, where he headlined the WWF’s flagship annual event WrestleMania eight times (a record which was broken by Roman Reigns).[11] Hogan also was a regular headliner of Saturday Night’s Main Event and its spin-off The Main Event in which he headlined 31 editions of both shows combined. During his initial run, he was a five-time WWF Champion, with his 1,474-day reign being the longest of the WrestleMania era ever. He is the first wrestler to win consecutive Royal Rumble matches, winning in 1990 and 1991. His match with Andre the Giant on WWF The Main Event on February 5, 1988, still holds American television viewership records for wrestling with a 15.2 Nielsen rating and 33 million viewers