Thread: WWE Removes Moolah's name from the Battle Royal
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Old 03-18-2018, 08:25 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by XL View Post
What are the chances - given they were smart enough not to honour her for the tournament last year - that they knowingly used Moolah’s name to get the (bad) publicity in order to parlay it into good publicity of changing the name?
Little to none considering the risks outweighed the benefits by a lot. They were lucky a lose-lose situation didn't happen where sponsors just bailed or became furious at being played by the WWE. Same for risking their tv contract talks by having FOX and others start to reconsider wanting to do business with the company.

If anything, Vince/WWE was probably banking on the backlash having no teeth or sponsors/media not caring because of wrestling's low image in the main stream. Would have opened the door for bringing Hogan and others with questionable reputations back into the company's graces.
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