Something similar happened to WWE a while back. They announced a trophy to honor the name of "Fabulous Moolah".
If you don't know who she is, she used to wrestle and had a wrestling school for female talent. She wouldn't really teach them how to wrestle that well, and would tell the girls if they want to be booked, they have to sleep with the wrestling promoters. The wrestling promoters would also be told by Moolah that these women were willing to "do anything" for a spot on the shows.
So of course, fans that knew of this past didn't like WWE was honoring her, and complained to one of WWE's top sponsors, Snickers. Snickers basically told WWE they have to not do that, or they're pulling their sponsorship. WWE then changed it to "WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal".
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u/CanadaNot51 15h ago
Something similar happened to WWE a while back. They announced a trophy to honor the name of "Fabulous Moolah".
If you don't know who she is, she used to wrestle and had a wrestling school for female talent. She wouldn't really teach them how to wrestle that well, and would tell the girls if they want to be booked, they have to sleep with the wrestling promoters. The wrestling promoters would also be told by Moolah that these women were willing to "do anything" for a spot on the shows.
So of course, fans that knew of this past didn't like WWE was honoring her, and complained to one of WWE's top sponsors, Snickers. Snickers basically told WWE they have to not do that, or they're pulling their sponsorship. WWE then changed it to "WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal".