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Post by willyjakes on Feb 18, 2016 20:36:55 GMT -5
I remember seeing these clips on broadcast news about the steroid trials...McMahon strangely appeared in a neckbrace. Now mind you this was way way before he started to take bumps on the air, and certainly he didn't appear on TV with any neckbrace at the time. Yet curiously it just magically appears on him in the news. Was this just a brazen attempt to gain sympathy in court? When was he ever injured at that time?   |
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Feb 18, 2016 20:41:50 GMT -5
I always heard he did have legitimate neck surgery around that time. I can't remember anything about his TV presence at the time. He certainly wasn't on the announcing team for King of the Ring 1994, which of course featured Art Donovan!
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Feb 18, 2016 20:45:33 GMT -5
Yeah I do believe he underwent legit neck surgery a few days before the trial but there was definitely rumours that he timed it that way so he'd gain sympathy at the trial.
Maybe it worked?
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Post by tigermaskxxxvii on Feb 18, 2016 20:47:31 GMT -5
I always heard he did have legitimate neck surgery around that time. I can't remember anything about his TV presence at the time. He certainly wasn't on the announcing team for King of the Ring 1994, which of course featured Art Donovan! Art Donovan rang Vince's neck asking him how much some guy weighed and ended up injuring Vince's neck. This in turn opened up a chair at the broadcast booth for Art to ask Savage and Monsoon this incessantly in front of a worldwide audience. |
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Post by lildude8218 on Feb 18, 2016 21:20:07 GMT -5
The true story is that Vince McMahon was booked to fight for the UFC and after a year of buildup, his first fight was announced and then a week later he said he was getting neck surgery and never wound up fighting for the UFC.
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Post by StuntGranny® on Feb 18, 2016 21:45:33 GMT -5
Can you imagine how much different the wrestling industry would've been if that asshole would've went to prison?
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Post by Error on Feb 18, 2016 22:03:44 GMT -5
Wasn't it a motorcycle accident? Like someone backed out into him and launched him over the handlebars?
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Post by Chuckie Finster on Feb 19, 2016 4:46:30 GMT -5
In the first picture, you can see Vince turning his head ever-so-slightly. He did have neck surgery, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was timed so he could looks sympathetic. Can you imagine how much different the wrestling industry would've been if that asshole would've went to prison? I think the contingency plan was JJ Dillon would run the company with Linda as owner. |
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Post by StuntGranny® on Feb 19, 2016 7:44:04 GMT -5
In the first picture, you can see Vince turning his head ever-so-slightly. He did have neck surgery, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was timed so he could looks sympathetic. Can you imagine how much different the wrestling industry would've been if that asshole would've went to prison? I think the contingency plan was JJ Dillon would run the company with Linda as owner. JJ Dillon running the company doesn't sound all that bad, in my opinion. |
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Feb 19, 2016 8:03:42 GMT -5
In the first picture, you can see Vince turning his head ever-so-slightly. He did have neck surgery, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was timed so he could looks sympathetic. Can you imagine how much different the wrestling industry would've been if that asshole would've went to prison? I think the contingency plan was JJ Dillon would run the company with Linda as owner. Jerry Jarrett was Vince's choice, not JJ. |
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Post by SmashTV on Feb 20, 2016 4:47:10 GMT -5
I remember seeing pictures of this at the time and thought that it was nothing but a plea for sympathy. Even by Vince's standards it was a tacky gesture; it was like he'd called Saul twenty years before anyone else...
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Feb 20, 2016 5:06:44 GMT -5
Wasn't it a motorcycle accident? Like someone backed out into him and launched him over the handlebars? There was a motorcycle accident that Vince was in, but that wasn't until 1999. |
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Post by ________ has left the building on Feb 20, 2016 8:18:59 GMT -5
The scuttlebutt was that Vince got injured taking the Doomsday Device from the Road Warriors in a bar after egging them on to do it.
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Post by Super Nintenjoe KBD on Feb 20, 2016 9:11:58 GMT -5
Vince looks so Alan Partridge in those pictures.
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Post by JTG Fan on Feb 20, 2016 9:32:53 GMT -5
It was only a rib.
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Post by CeilingFan on Feb 20, 2016 9:38:01 GMT -5
Can you imagine how much different the wrestling industry would've been if that asshole would've went to prison?
according to the book "Sex, Lies, and. and Headlocks" Ted Turner offered to buy the WWF if Vince went to jail, and replace WCW with it.
Think about that. There would've been no Monday Night Wars and second boom period, with Turner owning WWE.
scary, huh?
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Post by StuntGranny® on Feb 20, 2016 9:44:22 GMT -5
Can you imagine how much different the wrestling industry would've been if that asshole would've went to prison?
according to the book "Sex, Lies, and. and Headlocks" Ted Turner offered to buy the WWF if Vince went to jail, and replace WCW with it.
Think about that. There would've been no Monday Night Wars and second boom period, with Turner owning WWE.
scary, huh?
Well, that's subjective, I guess. That sounds no scarier than the way things ultimately ended up. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2016 11:06:18 GMT -5
according to the book "Sex, Lies, and. and Headlocks" Ted Turner offered to buy the WWF if Vince went to jail, and replace WCW with it.
Think about that. There would've been no Monday Night Wars and second boom period, with Turner owning WWE.
scary, huh?
Well, that's subjective, I guess. That sounds no scarier than the way things ultimately ended up. I don't get how so many people who watch so much of the product pretend so much that they hate it. I don't like F1 so I watch if for 5 hours every week and have done for the last 15 years and complain how terrible it is. Spot my flaw. Vince didn't create wrestling, Vince didn't kill wrestling - he was just the most successful at doing wrestling. I don't get this pretence people who religiously watch the show have to insist that they've hated it for 20 years |
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Post by StuntGranny® on Feb 20, 2016 11:18:53 GMT -5
Well, that's subjective, I guess. That sounds no scarier than the way things ultimately ended up. I don't get how so many people who watch so much of the product pretend so much that they hate it. I don't like F1 so I watch if for 5 hours every week and have done for the last 15 years and complain how terrible it is. Spot my flaw. Vince didn't create wrestling, Vince didn't kill wrestling - he was just the most successful at doing wrestling. I don't get this pretence people who religiously watch the show have to insist that they've hated it for 20 years I grew up watching wrestling. It goes without saying that it was A LOT different back then. There was competition, something that actually forced everyone to be better and put on the best show they felt was possible. Monday night was always wrestling night. For me, it still is. I rarely watch an entire episode of Raw, but there are guys on there I enjoy seeing. NXT is a good show and I hope it's an example of how much better the product will be when Vince and Kevin are FINALLY gone. I can't speak for everyone else, but I complain about how terrible the current product is because it's so frustrating knowing how good it COULD be. Plus, it's a f***ing wrestling board where people voice their opinions. How boring it would be if we all just went on and on about how wonderful Vince Jr's monopoly is. You say Vince didn't kill wrestling, and that's fine. I think he definitely (at the very least) severely wounded it in North America. I think he's done way more to harm wrestling than help it. I mean, this is the same steroid-riddled lunatic who runs a wrestling company and is too ashamed to call it wrestling. My ultimate opinion is that if Vince went away, the wrestling industry would've been better off in numerous ways. |
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Feb 20, 2016 11:41:54 GMT -5
There are only two ways to hurt your neck, and Linda seems awfully happy in the top picture.
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