Over the years, several within professional wrestling who knew Murdoch have said he was
racist and was a member of the
Ku Klux Klan. In a shoot interview,
Bad News Brownaccused him of being a member of the Klan. This was also mentioned by
Tito Santana in his
autobiography,
Tales From The Ring. Former
WWE SmackDown head writer Alex Greenfield also related a story told to him by
Dusty Rhodes about Murdoch driving him to a Klan party without telling him it was a KKK party beforehand.[9][10] Most recently, former wrestling star
Rocky Johnson, father of
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, claims Murdoch was a member of the Klan and that he once knocked him unconscious during a match stating during an interview, "Because he was KKK and didn't like blacks, he kept kicking me hard and punching me. I said, 'you hit me one more time, I'm hitting you back.' He hit me, and I knocked him out."[11