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Post by noleafclover1980 on Apr 28, 2011 5:01:46 GMT -5
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Post by cruiserfan on Apr 28, 2011 5:27:56 GMT -5
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.
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Post by kevservo on Apr 28, 2011 5:31:49 GMT -5
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
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Post by WinOwensWin on Apr 28, 2011 6:49:10 GMT -5
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.
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Post by generationxero on Apr 28, 2011 9:41:31 GMT -5
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.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 28, 2011 9:43:43 GMT -5
Baron Von Bava = Heidenreich?
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Post by randomranter on Apr 28, 2011 10:11:02 GMT -5
You know...I could actually believe some of these.
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Post by Jacob Lee on Apr 28, 2011 10:22:09 GMT -5
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.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 28, 2011 10:26:20 GMT -5
I thought the writers would have joined her in all honesty. That was their WM main event out the window.
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Post by Young Game on Apr 28, 2011 10:32:12 GMT -5
Baron Von Bava = Heidenreich? Heidenreich + Brock Lesnar
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Post by Savage Gambino on Apr 28, 2011 10:41:01 GMT -5
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.
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Post by thegame415 on Apr 28, 2011 11:02:59 GMT -5
Uploaded with ImageShack.usQuick, crappy Photoshop...but I'm proud.
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Post by YellowJacketY2J on Apr 28, 2011 13:51:12 GMT -5
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).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 13:53:30 GMT -5
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.
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Post by who throws a shoe?! on Apr 28, 2011 14:48:18 GMT -5
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?
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Post by CrazySting on Apr 28, 2011 14:55:30 GMT -5
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.
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Post by CrazySting on Apr 28, 2011 14:57:36 GMT -5
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.
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Post by The Ichi on Apr 28, 2011 15:02:58 GMT -5
How do you think they got the idea for WWE Crush Hour?
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Post by Andrew is Good on Apr 28, 2011 16:40:06 GMT -5
Man. Is Vince ever competitive.
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.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Apr 28, 2011 20:16:57 GMT -5
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.
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