Rave
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Post by Rave on Aug 21, 2013 6:52:10 GMT -5
My favorite is still the Angle/McMahon takedown flight, especially when Taker woke up, didn't know what was going on, and choked Angle out. I haven't heard this before I don't think, is that the whole story or is there more to it??? Angle documented it in his book. It started a while beforehand, when Vince jokingly jumped Angle backstage and took him down. From then on, Vince would tease Angle with "I'm the only one to take you down!" So, on the plane and having heard that enough, Angle decided to have a little fun right back and took Vince down right in the aisle. The entire plane ride after that, Vince kept popping up to try to take Angle down. Angle would get up for whatever reason and Vince would be right there. I remember reading that they were going to land and there was Vince creeping up the aisle heading right for Angle. Angle thought he was nuts. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) One of their little scuffles woke up Taker, who didn't know what was going on, saw Angle and Vince, thought Angle was attacking the boss and promptly choked him out.
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Post by PTBartman on Aug 21, 2013 7:08:04 GMT -5
I haven't heard this before I don't think, is that the whole story or is there more to it??? Angle documented it in his book. It started a while beforehand, when Vince jokingly jumped Angle backstage and took him down. From then on, Vince would tease Angle with "I'm the only one to take you down!" So, on the plane and having heard that enough, Angle decided to have a little fun right back and took Vince down right in the aisle. The entire plane ride after that, Vince kept popping up to try to take Angle down. Angle would get up for whatever reason and Vince would be right there. I remember reading that they were going to land and there was Vince creeping up the aisle heading right for Angle. Angle thought he was nuts. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) One of their little scuffles woke up Taker, who didn't know what was going on, saw Angle and Vince, thought Angle was attacking the boss and promptly choked him out.
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Post by -Lithium- on Aug 21, 2013 7:45:08 GMT -5
Bret pitching some idea to Vince, who wrote it down in a book. Then some time after, Vince calls up Bret and pitches him the idea, thinking he came up with it on his own...
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Post by jason1980s on Aug 21, 2013 8:36:47 GMT -5
And THEN, he started having burritos for lunch at the office regularly afterwards...except not. Madigan would see his secretary bringing him what was not a burrito, but was in fact simply a steak-wrap cut in half, which Vince would put ketchup on, all the while thinking that what he was eating was what a burrito was. Reminds me of the Seinfeld's Steinbrenner calzone episode where he gets hooked on the calzone had wants George to bring them every day. He definitely has a Mr. Burns type way about him in being goofy and not knowing about things from the last 10 years. I imagine if someone did come for a shoot interview he'd think it was Collier's Magazine. What I wonder about is if Vince was always as crazy as he comes off. It's hard to believe he was that good an actor that he could perform the straight laced announcer until 1997. But I guess the 1987 Slammy dance was a hint of Mr. McMahon back then.
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Post by Chip Jordan on Aug 21, 2013 9:19:06 GMT -5
I don't know if it's true but I read a story on here a couple of years ago that made me chuckle - during the Raw Guest Host era Vince suggested they contact Ray Combs, not realising he'd been dead for 15 years.
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Rican
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Post by Rican on Aug 21, 2013 9:21:30 GMT -5
I seriously hope Vince lives forever.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 9:39:39 GMT -5
I don't know if it's true but I read a story on here a couple of years ago that made me chuckle - during the Raw Guest Host era Vince suggested they contact Ray Combs, not realising he'd been dead for 15 years. ![](http://instart3.flixster.com/photo/13/67/02/13670219_ori.jpg)
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Post by kingoftheindies on Aug 21, 2013 9:50:25 GMT -5
Scott Hall got the Razor Ramon push by quoting Tony Montana during a meeting with Vince. Vince loved it and thought that Hall was coming up with everything on the fly having no idea that the movie Scarface existed. Curt Henning was in the meeting and told Hall to milk it for everything he could
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Aug 21, 2013 9:56:21 GMT -5
-challenging Court Bauer to a drag race then attempting to drive him off the road and kill him when Court started getting ahead. -having a mini nervous breakdown when Dan Madigan pitched a gimmick of a Nazi wrestler with Paul Heyman as his manager The Dan Madigan Nazi story is just gut-bustingly awesome. I wish someone had had a hidden camera at that meeting, just to capture everything (not only Vince's amazing reaction, but Madigan getting all excited acting it out, to the point of goose-stepping around the meeting room). The thing that's really weird, though, is that even though Vince was, allegedly, so shocked by the Nazi idea, he, according to Madigan in another story, didn't have any problem with another offensive World War II relic gimmick: Hirohito. Apparently, when the WWE signed Kenzo Suzuki, they wanted him to be the descendent of Emperor Hirohito, who was out to get revenge on America for Japan's defeat and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They shot a whole debut video package for him, complete with old footage of the A-bomb over Hiroshima, along with a pair of "Asian eyes" looking menacingly over them. Vince actually LIKED the idea, approved it, and had the package played on an episode of RAW. Apparently, the actual, real-life Japanese imperial family got word of this, and to Vince's shock, they heard from their lawyers, who were protesting the character and threatening to sue. Madigan came to him with the news that apparently, someone in the Japanese imperial family watches WWE and was telling them to stop with the Hirohito character. Vince was surprised, and said "I didn't even know there WAS a Japanese royal family!" "Me neither!" Said Madigan. Which, as an aside, I can't get my head around: they were making a wrestling character based off of the historical Emperor of Japan!! How could you not know, then, that Japan has a royal/imperial dynasty!? On top of that, Vince goes on to yell at Madigan and ask him why he went ahead with this gimmick. When Madigan replied that Vince had just approved the gimmick and told him it was okay, Vince goes "Well, dammit, why do you ever listen to me!?"
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Post by Talent Name on Aug 21, 2013 10:26:02 GMT -5
Vince's Hobo Army Not knowing that Armando Alejandro Estrada was still employed by them
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Post by Medicinal Thunder Liger on Aug 21, 2013 10:37:05 GMT -5
“According to numerous sources, McMahon had a great love affair with cocaine that may or may not have ever subsided; “he liked to brag with apparent justification that ‘I can snort as much of that stuff as anyone can put in front of me and never get hooked.” One WWE employee of recent years told me, “The boys and former office staff use euphemisms when they talk about Vince’s ‘energy.’ You’ll hear it in things like, ‘I don’t know where he gets all the energy….. He doesn’t ever seem to sleep!’ The inside joke about it is that sixty-something Vince most likely isn’t that energetic over multi-day sleepness stretches without help. I’ve seen him so wired that his eyes looked like they were going to pop.”
I adore this man
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Rave
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Post by Rave on Aug 21, 2013 13:11:38 GMT -5
-challenging Court Bauer to a drag race then attempting to drive him off the road and kill him when Court started getting ahead. -having a mini nervous breakdown when Dan Madigan pitched a gimmick of a Nazi wrestler with Paul Heyman as his manager The Dan Madigan Nazi story is just gut-bustingly awesome. I wish someone had had a hidden camera at that meeting, just to capture everything (not only Vince's amazing reaction, but Madigan getting all excited acting it out, to the point of goose-stepping around the meeting room). The thing that's really weird, though, is that even though Vince was, allegedly, so shocked by the Nazi idea, he, according to Madigan in another story, didn't have any problem with another offensive World War II relic gimmick: Hirohito. Apparently, when the WWE signed Kenzo Suzuki, they wanted him to be the descendent of Emperor Hirohito, who was out to get revenge on America for Japan's defeat and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They shot a whole debut video package for him, complete with old footage of the A-bomb over Hiroshima, along with a pair of "Asian eyes" looking menacingly over them. Vince actually LIKED the idea, approved it, and had the package played on an episode of RAW. Apparently, the actual, real-life Japanese imperial family got word of this, and to Vince's shock, they heard from their lawyers, who were protesting the character and threatening to sue. Madigan came to him with the news that apparently, someone in the Japanese imperial family watches WWE and was telling them to stop with the Hirohito character. Vince was surprised, and said "I didn't even know there WAS a Japanese royal family!" "Me neither!" Said Madigan. Which, as an aside, I can't get my head around: they were making a wrestling character based off of the historical Emperor of Japan!! How could you not know, then, that Japan has a royal/imperial dynasty!? On top of that, Vince goes on to yell at Madigan and ask him why he went ahead with this gimmick. When Madigan replied that Vince had just approved the gimmick and told him it was okay, Vince goes "Well, dammit, why do you ever listen to me!?" I remember hearing that someone thought better of it (reportedly Suzuki himself), since they did some pretty monster business in Japan, but not that someone from Japan's imperial family got wind of it and threatened to sue. To be fair, Japan is a constitutional monarchy with the Emperor largely a figurehead, so it's really no surprise that people forget there is one. I did until I looked it up on Wiki. I'd link the vignette but it appears to have been taken down.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Aug 21, 2013 13:17:43 GMT -5
Okay, so it's not THAT crazy but Vince McMahon having no idea what the Burchill gimmick was because he'd never seen Pirates of the Carribean and then, after having it explained to him, assuming no one ELSE had seen it either is one of my favorite crotchety old vince stories. Yeah, Russo tells that story about how the original plan for G-TV was to bring in Tom Green for some crossover appeal with MTV when Tom Green was really popular in the late 90's. Vince nixed the idea, not because Vince had never heard of him, but Vince said "NOBODY'S ever heard of that guy."
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Post by lionheart21 on Aug 21, 2013 14:55:30 GMT -5
The story where he didn't realize Jimmy Wang Yang hadn't worked for WWE for about a year when he randomly bumped into him backstage. That's the one I came in here to post.
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Post by JTG Fan on Aug 21, 2013 15:03:20 GMT -5
I think it was said on the old I Want Wrestling podcast and not really a crazy story, but Vince went to fart right before walking out for a promo with Patterson and Brisco, cuts said 10/15 minute promo in the middle of the ring and, when he makes it past the curtain, says to the people in gorilla "I need to change my pants" or something to that effect. Then chased Brisco around backstage with his soiled drawers. Kevin Kelly told the story. "C'MERE BRISCO!"
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 21, 2013 15:46:41 GMT -5
After reading Bret's autobiography, all I could think was that a movie adaptation of it would've provided whomever was cast as Vince a sure-fire crack at a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars. What a deranged, complicated human being.
In a lot of the stories you really get a vibe like he wants to be "one of the boys", and it winds up coloring his day-to-day behavior.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Aug 21, 2013 15:53:50 GMT -5
After reading Bret's autobiography, all I could think was that a movie adaptation of it would've provided whomever was cast as Vince a sure-fire crack at a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars. What a deranged, complicated human being. In a lot of the stories you really get a vibe like he wants to be "one of the boys", and it winds up coloring his day-to-day behavior. I was just thinking last night that a biopic of Vince McMahon himself would be cinematic gold. I was trying to think of a title earlier today. Maybe No Chance or Stand Back or The Promoter. If the McMahon family ever sells the movie rights, and it gets picked up by a studio and director willing to interpret him seriously, fairly and accurately, it would be amazing. It could be something similar to The Aviator, with what Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio did to tell the story of Howard Hughes.
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Post by PTBartman on Aug 22, 2013 5:54:44 GMT -5
After reading Bret's autobiography, all I could think was that a movie adaptation of it would've provided whomever was cast as Vince a sure-fire crack at a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars. What a deranged, complicated human being. In a lot of the stories you really get a vibe like he wants to be "one of the boys", and it winds up coloring his day-to-day behavior. I was just thinking last night that a biopic of Vince McMahon himself would be cinematic gold. I was trying to think of a title earlier today. Maybe No Chance or Stand Back or The Promoter. If the McMahon family ever sells the movie rights, and it gets picked up by a studio and director willing to interpret him seriously, fairly and accurately, it would be amazing. It could be something similar to The Aviator, with what Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio did to tell the story of Howard Hughes. Your Fired!: The Musical.
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Post by Gummydavidson on Aug 22, 2013 6:12:50 GMT -5
"Who the **** hired Raven?!"
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Aug 22, 2013 6:54:20 GMT -5
It's these stories that make me like the crazy old bastard more and more. My favourite has already been covered (the Doomsday Device story), but the inner child in me still gets a chuckle from picturing Vinnie Mac & Co. pissing on Flair's bed. Probably my personal highlight from Bret's autobiography. It would have been awkward for Flair to come back to the room with a few women on his arm and see his bed soaked in piss. "MCMAHON! YOUR ASS IS MINE! WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
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