I have a new favorite newz story...

[noleafclover1980]

Finally, something that beats the MVP screwdriver incident.
From "Top 10 Horror Stories of WWE Creative"

www.cagesideseats.com/2011/4/27/2137216/top-ten-horror-stories-from-wwe-creative

Number 1: Vince McMahon's Top Gear

In an interview earlier this year, Court Bauer recalled to Bryan Alvarez how, after a meeting in Stamford one night, he ran into Vince in the car park, and was then challenged to an impromptu drag race by the billionaire CEO. Reluctantly, Bauer went along with it. Bauer was then pleasantly surprised when his own vehicle (which wasn’t a patch on Vince’s car) actually managed to catch up with Vince. Bauer then claimed that Vince’s response to this was to try and drive him off the road. Frightened, Bauer slowed down. “Let me get this straight,” a shocked Alvarez then asked Bauer, “You’re saying Vince tried to KILL you?!” “Vince likes to win,” Bauer responded. Yikes

Awesome.

[cruiserfan]

There was already kind of a thread on this. I don't know how much of all this I believe anyway. I'd like to believe that Vince is a psychopath, I really would.

[kevservo]

Apr 28, 2011 5:27:56 GMT -5 cruiserfan said:

There was already kind of a thread on this. I don't know how much of all this I believe anyway. I'd like to believe that Vince is a psychopath, I really would.

I don't think Vince is crazy so much as he just doesn't give a f*** LOL

[WinOwensWin]

Another famous story that has done the rounds is one mentioning Stephanie’s nervous breakdown after her husband HHH had suffered his second torn quadriceps muscle at the New Years Revolution PPV in January 2007. Backstage with the writing team and watching the monitor when the injury had occurred, a horrified Stephanie fell to her knees, burst into tears and starting screaming: "Nooooooooooo!" as if reenacting the ending of The Godfather Part III. While sympathetic to her plight (as anyone would be) the writers still felt incredibly awkward as they stood silently watching her, and wondered if Stephanie was not perhaps slightly over-reacting.

[generationxero]

Number 9: Madigan's Misery

The adventures of See No Evil writer Dan Madigan in WWE are probably deserving of a section of their own. Indeed, Madigan had a crazier time there than most. As he noted to Powerslam magazine in 2008, he was initially a golden boy in WWE (Vince loved the dire and sophomoric See No Evil, likely seeing it on par with The King’s Speech or Black Swan or something) but Madigan quickly fell out of favour after pitching a strange idea in a creative meeting. Greatly misjudging Vince’s mood one day, Madigan pushed the sensational idea of Baron Von Bava, a Nazi cyborg, frozen in the last days of World War Two (“in a secret cave in the Swiss Alps!” Madigan would elaborate to Powerslam) suddenly thawed out after fifty years intent on carrying on the work of Hitler. Better yet, it would later be revealed that Paul Heyman (who is Jewish) would be his new manager, intent on unleashing this Nazi monster on the world. Madigan also suggested that the character would then goose-step to the ring, and then got promptly got up in the meeting and began goose-stepping, to show Vince and the rest of the writers how it would work.

After Madigan had finished pitching the idea, everything went quiet. Then after a few seconds of silence, a stunned Vince (in a rare moment of modesty and taste) slowly got up from his chair, put on his coat and grabbed his briefcase, and walked out of the room without uttering a word. The rest of the writing team were equally shocked; after Vince left no-one else in the meeting knew what to say. Madigan was unrepentant and explained: “I thought these were good ideas: inside my mind, it worked out well.”


...No words.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Baron Von Bava = Heidenreich?

[randomranter]

You know...I could actually believe some of these.

[Jacob Lee]

Apr 28, 2011 6:49:10 GMT -5 WinOwensWin said:

Another famous story that has done the rounds is one mentioning Stephanie’s nervous breakdown after her husband HHH had suffered his second torn quadriceps muscle at the New Years Revolution PPV in January 2007. Backstage with the writing team and watching the monitor when the injury had occurred, a horrified Stephanie fell to her knees, burst into tears and starting screaming: "Nooooooooooo!" as if reenacting the ending of The Godfather Part III. While sympathetic to her plight (as anyone would be) the writers still felt incredibly awkward as they stood silently watching her, and wondered if Stephanie was not perhaps slightly over-reacting.

Who wouldn't freak out watching their husband or wife suffer a horrible injury in real time and know they cannot do anything about it? I'm not a Triple H fan, but that's just a normal human reaction.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

I thought the writers would have joined her in all honesty. That was their WM main event out the window.

[Young Game]

Apr 28, 2011 9:43:43 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Baron Von Bava = Heidenreich?

Heidenreich + Brock Lesnar

[Savage Gambino]

Apr 28, 2011 10:22:09 GMT -5 Jacob Lee said:

Who wouldn't freak out watching their husband or wife suffer a horrible injury in real time and know they cannot do anything about it? I'm not a Triple H fan, but that's just a normal human reaction.

Not to mention, that was Triple H's, what, THIRD quad tear? On top of other injuries he'd amassed, Steph might have thought she was watching her husband's career ending before her eyes.

I'd have been emotional too.

[thegame415]

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[YellowJacketY2J]

Number 2: The New Howard Hughes

As former WWE writer Dave Lagana noted on his blog last year: "If there is one thing Vince McMahon hates… its sickness. ‘There is no such thing as sick’, was the usual response when someone would try to use it as an excuse. Vince is a workaholic and if anything gets in the way of his work, it makes him angry. Paul Heyman would joke that Vince would get angry with his own sneezes. Perhaps it was because he couldn’t control it. "John Piermarini would make similar claims in an interview with Wade Keller. Dave Meltzer has since confirmed that Vince was known for going “completely nuts” and yelling at people if they dared sneeze or cough around him. It seems Vince is a bit of a hygiene freak and now lives in constant fear of people’s germs contaminating him and the precious air he breathes.

Note to Vince: Unless you’ve banged Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Ava Gardener, produced several classic Hollywood films (No, The Chaperone doesn’t count) and set the world record for flying around the world by yourself in the quickest time, you will still never be as cool as Howard Hughes.

This one I can believe, as Austin stated in his autobiography that Vince hates being sick and can't stand to sneeze due to lack of control (which the article quotes Paul Heyman on, which may also be true).

[Deleted]

Drag racing Vince may be the greatest thing ever. I would love to work at Titan Towers, I'd take a pay cut to be Vince's assistant; sheerly for the awesome stories that I would have.

[who throws a shoe?!]

Apr 28, 2011 13:51:12 GMT -5 YellowJacketY2J said:

Number 2: The New Howard Hughes

As former WWE writer Dave Lagana noted on his blog last year: "If there is one thing Vince McMahon hates… its sickness. ‘There is no such thing as sick’, was the usual response when someone would try to use it as an excuse. Vince is a workaholic and if anything gets in the way of his work, it makes him angry. Paul Heyman would joke that Vince would get angry with his own sneezes. Perhaps it was because he couldn’t control it. "John Piermarini would make similar claims in an interview with Wade Keller. Dave Meltzer has since confirmed that Vince was known for going “completely nuts” and yelling at people if they dared sneeze or cough around him. It seems Vince is a bit of a hygiene freak and now lives in constant fear of people’s germs contaminating him and the precious air he breathes.

Note to Vince: Unless you’ve banged Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Ava Gardener, produced several classic Hollywood films (No, The Chaperone doesn’t count) and set the world record for flying around the world by yourself in the quickest time, you will still never be as cool as Howard Hughes.

This one I can believe, as Austin stated in his autobiography that Vince hates being sick and can't stand to sneeze due to lack of control (which the article quotes Paul Heyman on, which may also be true).

Lack of control? Vince has a weak bladder?

[CrazySting]

Can we stop with all the NEWZ stuff?

I actually heard the podcast where Court was talking about it. He wasn't insanely angry about his time there, it was just a "oh, here's another crazy Vince story". Why would he lie?

Listen to some of Lagana's podcasts with the other former writers. They're nicer about the McMahons than many ex writers are, and Lagana has described Vince and Stephanie as nice people (to him, anyway) but none of them even try to deny that Vince is a f***ing nutjob.

[CrazySting]

Apr 28, 2011 10:22:09 GMT -5 Jacob Lee said:

Apr 28, 2011 6:49:10 GMT -5 WinOwensWin said:

Another famous story that has done the rounds is one mentioning Stephanie’s nervous breakdown after her husband HHH had suffered his second torn quadriceps muscle at the New Years Revolution PPV in January 2007. Backstage with the writing team and watching the monitor when the injury had occurred, a horrified Stephanie fell to her knees, burst into tears and starting screaming: "Nooooooooooo!" as if reenacting the ending of The Godfather Part III. While sympathetic to her plight (as anyone would be) the writers still felt incredibly awkward as they stood silently watching her, and wondered if Stephanie was not perhaps slightly over-reacting.

Who wouldn't freak out watching their husband or wife suffer a horrible injury in real time and know they cannot do anything about it? I'm not a Triple H fan, but that's just a normal human reaction.

Nobody's blaming her for being upset. But going all Darth Vader with the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" is a bit melodramtic for a torn muscle.

[The Ichi]

How do you think they got the idea for WWE Crush Hour?

[Andrew is Good]

Man. Is Vince ever competitive.

Number 3: "Acting like a mark"

Stephanie McMahon has been known to reprimand long-suffering writers over this matter for years. So, how exactly do these writers qualify for the term “mark” anyway? Freaking out whenever a wrestler comes into the room? Begging headliners for an autograph whenever they come within their near vicinity? Er…no, actually. Dr Ranjan Chhibber complained to Matthew Randazzo that in 2004 Stephanie had scolded him for “Acting like a mark” when she got wind that, in the middle of a conversation with Johnny Ace, the academic had politely complimented Ace on some of his matches in All Japan. Court Bauer also recounted to Bryan Alvarez earlier this year that, during his stint with the company in 2005 and 2006, he had been dragged into Stephanie’s office and been given the dreaded “Acting like a mark” speech. What heinous infraction had Court committed? He’d used the term “Blading” during a meeting. Stephanie felt that, for a writer to use such an insider term was an incredible violation of locker room protocol. She then forced a stunned Bauer to go around every wrestler in the room and apologise for “offending” them.

Some former writers have claimed that Stephanie has mellowed out since having her children and no longer feels the need to act like the wrestling equivalent of Colonel Gaddafi to her writers. We can only hope.

What I love about this story is Court was a promoter for awhile, for the MLW promotion, working with the likes of Terry Funk and Steve Corino, as he did a big angle with them.

[Wolf Hurricane]

Apr 28, 2011 10:22:09 GMT -5 Jacob Lee said:

Apr 28, 2011 6:49:10 GMT -5 WinOwensWin said:

Another famous story that has done the rounds is one mentioning Stephanie’s nervous breakdown after her husband HHH had suffered his second torn quadriceps muscle at the New Years Revolution PPV in January 2007. Backstage with the writing team and watching the monitor when the injury had occurred, a horrified Stephanie fell to her knees, burst into tears and starting screaming: "Nooooooooooo!" as if reenacting the ending of The Godfather Part III. While sympathetic to her plight (as anyone would be) the writers still felt incredibly awkward as they stood silently watching her, and wondered if Stephanie was not perhaps slightly over-reacting.

Who wouldn't freak out watching their husband or wife suffer a horrible injury in real time and know they cannot do anything about it? I'm not a Triple H fan, but that's just a normal human reaction.

I'm thinking part of what makes it so strange is that she doesn't usually react like that, so loud and expressive. She kinda strikes me as someone who's good at keeping her composure.

Also, reenacting the scene at the end of Platoon: not all that normal a reaction. There's emotional and then there's over-the-top; when your husband has pretty much been unofficially classified as having glass quads, and has torn them once or twice before and fully recovered, collapsing into a heap seems like an excessive reaction. Also, her sixty-year-old father tore both two years prior and fully recovered as well. Compared to many of the other injuries pro-wrestling has to offer, a quad tear isn't the end of the world.