Vince McMahon has acknowledged Hulk Hogan ‘said some racist things’, but insisted that doesn’t mean the late WWE was ‘a racist’.

The former WWE chief has opened up about his longtime friend – who died on July 24 aged 71 following a cardiac arrest – in a very rare interview weeks after his death.

It marks McMahon’s first public chat since resigning from WWE’s parent company TKO amid a lawsuit accusing him of sex trafficking and sexual assault, which he has denied.

In TMZ Presents: The Real Hulk Hogan, the 79-year-old businessman reflected on Hogan’s 2015 scandal when he was heard using racist language in a tape leaked 10 years to the day before his death.

Speaking about why he brought Hogan back to WWE in 2018 after cutting ties with him over the footage, he said: ‘I knew he wasn’t a ra

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