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.

Vince McMahon is speaking out to defend his old friend Hulk Hogan. Last month, Hogan passed away at the age of 71, and while some mourned his death,

Hogan, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died July 24 of acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, according to a copy of Hogan's cremation report obtained by ABC News through the Pinellas County Forensic Science Center.