Multiple people such as Jim Ross, Bruce Pritchard, Jim Cornette, and Gerald Briscoe have all confirmed that Vince was absolutely obsessed with Johnny B Badd. Vince considered him one of the greatest gimmicks of all time, and during booking meetings would constantly bring up Johnny B Badd as having the kind of charisma and star power he's trying to draw out of his own roster. Vince was so enamored with him that he signed Mero to a contract without even knowing that WCW owned all rights to the gimmick, and Mero couldn't use it in the WWF.
I've heard a lot of Vince curios over the years from various books and interviews >Didn't know you could bake a potato until his 40s when one of the boys ordered a side for his steak>Once called up Bob Holly and told him to get to work despite his contract expiring 6 months prior>Once loudly proclaimed "Who the fuck hired Johnny Polo?" when he seen Raven backstage, while Raven was 10ft behind him>Used to insist the boys shoot used their finisher's on him if he didn't think they would look like they hurt on TV>Once tried to our bench press Mark Henry and genuinely thought he could do it>Asked what a burrito was while eating a burrito, said he thought they were called Steak Wraps>Didn't understand why there was a market for Asian porn and made Jim Ross explain it to him>Once cussed out a writer for suggesting 2 matches in a row ended in run ins then a year later booked the Attitude Era with constant run ins>Once drove a car in to the parking, handed the keys off to the first person he seen and said "Park it, pal", the person was the family member of a wrestler who just came in to say hi, and tipped him $50>Once called a TV repair guy to fix his TV only to find out it was on mute, tipped the guy handsomely >Once called an all hands on deck meeting at his house for a Raw booking session on a Saturday night then forgot he did so, sending everyone home - several people flew in especially for it>Once had an argument with a wrestler about how he didn't need glasses then no sold a script read when he couldn't read the typescript - then got all the notes typed up in a larger font >Once sent a wrestler home for not back talking him >Once shit his pants then went on stage for a promo, immediately went to the back and showered, then sat in Gorilla in his underwear and a shirt while a wrestler got his suit dry cleaned >Once forgot he fired Goldust >Once dropped a ham sandwich on the floor then made a wrestler go make him a new one, and refused to eat it
>>19086654More>Once left Raw early to go to his hotel room and watch Raw, then called and complained about the production >On at least a handful of occasions booked a wrestler for a house show and forgot to tell them the venue>Once lost his cellphone so took one of the production guys phones and didn't return it>For a while after the launch of the Network would grill the guys on what they were watching, and if they weren't watching stuff he liked he'd lecture them>On at least a dozen occasions took all the writers work for Raw and rewrote it himself 3 hours before the show>Has nearly caused at least a half dozen serious car accidents due to reckless driving>At a house show in 2009 made the production crew experiment with videos of backstage angles being played over screens during what he called "boring matches">Used to wake up for workouts at 6am in the hotel gyms and chastise the guys that didn't work out with him and mocked the ones that did for not being as "virile and strong" as he is>Once turned off the AC in the building after Triple H said it was chilly, resulting in an angle in the ring looking ridiculous as all the guys were in full suits sweating profusely, as a rib >Tried to book twins in the 90s who both worked the same gimmick and name but in different house show circuits
>>19086654No one will ever make me not love this man
>>19086451A lot of people make fun of the gimmick now in retrospect because it was so fruity and weird, but Mero was surprisingly over with that gimmick back then
>>19086654>>19086764Vince doesn't sound like a real person sometimes but honestly he just sounds like a cheeky sonovabitch most of the time
>>19086764>>Tried to book twins in the 90s who both worked the same gimmick and name but in different house show circuitsKek wasn't that in one of the Earl Hebner interviews? Vince was apparently obsessed with the idea.
>>19086451Chris Masters saved his mom from being held hostage by pulling up a 10 foot tree with his bare hands and knocking out her window. Idk if that’s common knowledge saw it on boomerbook today
>>19086654>>19086764Easily the most based man who ever lived. He also loves fart gags, so much ao that he runs around backstage farting heinously in front of people to pop himself. On more than one occasion, this resulted in him shitting himself.
>>19086817Vince is genuinely one of the most fascinating people to have ever existed. Like if he was born in the bronze age or something he'd have been some historically relevant figure and have all these absurd fables about him
>>19086654>Once cussed out a writer for suggesting 2 matches in a row ended in run insNah, he was right for feeling this way at the time. Too bad he didn't maintain it>Once sent a wrestler home for not back talking him....Stevie Richards?>>19086764>Has nearly caused at least a half dozen serious car accidents due to reckless drivingWell this one's definitely true, kek>At a house show in 2009 made the production crew experiment with videos of backstage angles being played over screens during what he called "boring matches"This is honestly not a bad idea
>>19086764>>On at least a handful of occasions booked a wrestler for a house show and forgot to tell them the venueLmao that was Bob Holly again. It happened a few times
Transcript from JR's book "Slobberknocker" 1/3>It seemed like Vince was happy with me, too. "Jim, you ride with me," he said after a few weeks of Raw. In the parking bay of the building, Vince had a big Cadillac waiting. I could tell the second he started the engine that this was going to be a little bit of a "white knuckle" ride.>"What music do you listen to?" he asked.>"Eh...well I....">Before I could answer McMahon blasted AC/DC through the car speakers, the sound of which made everyone turn to see who the asshole was. When they saw it was the chairman's car, they all smiled and waved. We reached the road outside the building and Vince floored it. I honestly thought I was going to die before we even made it to the highway. I was stuck to the back of my seat praying to the good Lord himself for a safe journey. Beside me, Vince was singing at the top of his lungs, punching 90 miles an hour on a secondary road, all while "dancing" in his seat. "I'M AN AMAZING DANCER FOR A WHITE MAN," he shouted over the music.>"I CAN SEE," I shouted back.>Any car he met along the way, Vince drove inches from their trunk until they moved over. Sensing my utter terror, he leaned into me, taking his eyes completely off the road, and shouted in my ear, "I'VE GOT AMAZING DEPTH PERCEPTION. DON'T WORRY, PAL.">"OK.">Vince continued to gyrate in his seat as he weaved through traffic. He then stopped the song mid solo. The silence, after such a jarring burst of sound, was deafening. His demeanor completely changed. He went from bombastic and animated to somber and quiet.>"I want you to hear this," he said in a low voice.>"Hear what?" I said. I was afraid I'd miss whatever it was Vince was letting me in on. He seemed pained, almost confessional.>"You can't hear that?" he said, putting his finger to his lips.>I didn't want to sound like a jackass, so I listened as carefully as I could.>"You hear it, Jim?" he asked, a little more impatiently.
>>19086862>Like if he was born in the bronze age or something he'd have been some historically relevant figure and have all these absurd fables about himAnd there would have been multiple sources, each one painting him in a different light, ranging from whimsical to murderous.
>>19086451>copied and pasted from another thread (in case someone tries to call me out on it)Cody Rhodes may be the only wrestler in WWE history - maybe in the history of pro wrestling - to technically 'lose' and 'win' a championship at the exact same timeHow?In 2008, Cody held the World tag team belts with Hardcore Holly, and they had a PPV match (Night of Champions) to defend the belts in a match against Ted DiBiase Jr. and a mystery partnerCody and Holly came out for the match, then DiBiase came out but without a partner. Said his partner was running late, but that the match could start anyway as 2-on-1 and his partner would join midwayDuring the match, DiBiase's partner was revealed to be.....Cody Rhodes, who assaulted Holly. DiBiase then got the pin on HollySo the 'team' of Cody and Holly lost the tag titles to the 'team' of Cody and Ted Jr.
>>19086863>Stevie Richards?I genuinely can't remember a lot of the finer details of these things they're normally quick stories in long podcasts or a paragraph in a wrestling book, but yeah probably Stevie as he was a spineless KWAB
Vince used to invite people in to his office for meetings then cut the most rancid farts imaginable and no sell them to guage guys reactions
>>19086863house shows didnt even have screens around that time so idk what that means
>>19086654>>19086764My favourite Vince story is when he was talking Scott Hall in to working with Goldust >Vince was asking what his problem was>Scott explained he didn't like the idea of a guy coming on to him>Vince then went on to explain there's nothing wrong with being gay and told Scott about his first gay experience >Scott just sad there dumfounded before replying "Your first? As opposed to your last gay experience Vince?"
>>19086934They used to test out all kinds of crap on the house show circuits. There was also that weird story about them training the crew in how to put together a cage quickly so built a cage for a 2 minute match between two midcarders.
This whole thread could just be Vince stories.
>>19086893What in the absolute literal fuck is this bullshit I got banned for fucking nothing for trying to post a book transcript. It doesnt even tell me what I did wrong or what part of the post triggered it, do we have fucking AI jannys now
>>19086654>>Once called a TV repair guy to fix his TV only to find out it was on mute, tipped the guy handsomelyThat's the most boomer thing I've ever heard>>19086994As it should. He's the most based man alive
>>19086933Todd Pettengill got a job solely because when he went to the bathroom there was only one other guy in the stall taking a massive shit while farting & Todd said something like “how about a courtesy flush”. Vince came out seconds later hysterically laughing.
>>19087044Wow...and Todd was the one who introduced Michael Cole to VinceFunny how life works out
>>19087022Probably
>>19086654>>19086764Vince forgot how old he was once and had an argument with Stef about it, insisting he was 5 years younger than he was
>>19087024>He's the most based man aliveHe's more than that. He's the most based, and the most cringe. He is day and night, light and dark, the very essence of balance and chaos. He is the avatar of high functioning autism.
Sid had a pet squirrel that he would bring everywhere with him. one day a pro wrestler dared him to put it down his pants and the squirrel bit his balls
>>19087064I'll never understand what made Cole give up serious news reporting for fake fightingThe man was covering US presidential electionshttps://vocaroo.com/1cVd7z6Mljfl
Someone told a story once about they sat next to him on a plane. The wrestler wanted to put on a comedy. Like Step Brothers or Adam Sandler. And Vince chastised him, saying he should put on some Santino Morella for real comedy
>>19087372kek I think that was Feddie Prinze Junior.
>“One Monday afternoon Vince called for a mandatory meeting with everyone involved in WWE. Wrestlers, producers, camera men, caterers, everyone. We assumed he was pissed, and we were all in trouble. Nope! Someone made an entrance video on YouTube from the WWE video game with Kane and the Undertaker to Nitro and Melina’s entrance. Vince got a kick out of it and played it for everyone who was apart of the show to see, Kane and Taker included. I realised then Vince loves a good rib and loves to embarrass people and make them feel uncomfortable in any possible way. So many of the characters you thought were awful were simply there to entertain the Chairman.”From Justin Roberts' book.
>>19087593What a pussy faggot, no one wonder he got fired
Mick Foley often wore his street clothes to the ring, would completley forget he was wearing his Mankind mask long after it was necessary and according to Triple H, didn't shower after matches or change clothes. He would go into the lockerroom and wipe his whole body down with paper towel and then put his ring gear back on and then leave.Vader played classical piano.Goldust seriously considered getting breast implants for his gimmickSid Viscious once got in a bar fight and was chased out. He returned to the bar armed....with a squeegee, and got laughed out again.Mideon was high on acid during Stephanie's Ministry of Darkness sacrifice.Brian Knobbs and New Jack got into an argument at a show once and Brian thought in his infinite wisdom that it was a good idea to send a picture of his spread asshole to New Jack's phone as an "own" of sorts. He immediately realized what he did and begged New Jack not to repost it on the internet. Well, we all know what ol' New Jack would have done and did in that scenario, right?Paul Heyman would hand out ECW cheques to the boys while getting blown by a hookerAndre the Giant had several girlfriends in several cities. Once he had a pile of girls stack on top of each other on a bed and he pleasured them all with just his fingers. Arnold Skaaland described Andre having sex akin to "an elephant raping a rabbit." Due to the size of the toilets in Japan, Andre would resort to laying out newspapers in either the bathtubs or his mattress and would relieve himself there. He would then call Hulk Hogan into his room by saying, "Hey boss, come take a look at this."Stephanie McMahon in her university years in New York would pick guys up at nightclubs, have sex with themin the back of her limo and then she would kick them out at random spots without any of their clothes and then drive away.Kane was/is a voracious reader and would put down a book a week.At least one member of the ECW roster murdered someoneNash was raped in 92.
>>19087400It was. He was watching Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip on Netflix. Vince chastised him for watching a streaming app other than WWE Network. He tells Vince he wants to laugh and that's when Vince says WWE has Santino.
>>19087669>At least one ECW wrestler killed somebody Yeah, New Jack. He had four roses tattooed on his arm for the four black men he murdered. And Chris Benoit was in ECW. So that's 2 right there.
Shane McMahon was high on coke at the 2022 Royal Rumble.
>>19087807That's not exactly a surprise.
>>19087781New Jack said the whole murdering people thing was a work.
New Jack son is a tranny hooker btw
>>19086654>>19086764Vince is a fucking sitcom characterWhat a based retard
>>19087022Anyhow anon what did vince do ?I reckon he ripped fattest fart he could
>>19086654>>19086764I want to be like him when I'm grown
>>19086451lol
>>19089430That's exactly what he did
>>19086451Sponge Daddy Ryback
>>19086764>>19086654Truly one of the craziest, most interesting people alive. What other Billionaire CEO would bleed and get shoot concussed for his company?
>>19086862Yeah he'd be a legendary figure
>>19087022WTF? I was enjoying the read
>>19087022Well now you are ban evading so you can cry like a bitch about it.
>>19090106I bet you'd suck a jannies cock if he asked you too.
>>19087593LOL I wonder how Kane and taker reacted
>>19087022Checked. Jannies are trannies.>>19087125>The man was covering US presidential electionsFucking mark
>>19087593Who was doing the Melina split?
Thinly veiled anti-WWE Wheels thread
>>19086451Vince was right more times than he was wrong but he could sometimes confuse guys with irrational confidence for guys that have IT. Sometimes they go together but sometimes they don’t. At the same time Vince was praising Johnny B Badd it was almost the exact same era that he was shown the Steve Austin ECW promos, saw the guy had undeniable charisma and could at least work a vignette better than 95 percent of the business, signed him and proceeded to strap him with a DOA gimmick.
>>19086654>>Once called a TV repair guy to fix his TV only to find out it was on mute, tipped the guy handsomely
>>19090150Please stop. This is a great thread, and almost all these stories make Vince seem unfathomably based.
>>19090156Nice try, Irish cripple, but this thread is so people can badmouth Vince and WWE. Cheap tactics from Ireland
>>19086451Johnny B. Badd was a white guy who shucked and jived like a black man. Vince loved dancing, dancing gimmicks, and once claimed he had "great moves for a white guy." Vince wanted to be Little Richard or James Brown. It all makes sense.
>>19090266Marc Mero is Jewish, and a very swarthy jew at that.
There is an ECW match with Perry Saturn where just before the match his penis cleared touches his opponents, like straight up saw that as a kid and never forgot. Sliver tights wearing motherfucker
>>19086654>Once called up Bob Holly and told him to get to work despite his contract expiring 6 months prior>Once forgot he fired Goldust It's a common thing with Vince. There's the story of Jimmy Yang bringing a chick backstage to Backlash 2006 to impress her, Vince saw him and wanted him to test some stuff out (the spot where the Spirit Squad put HBK through the table) and Yang had to remind him that he'd been fired a year ago and Vince was suprised. But Yang did it so they gave him a tryout match on Heat against Charlie Haas, then rehired him and gave him the Jimmy Wang Yang gimmick because Vince thought an Asian redneck would be hilarious.Also the story where Vince on a flight was needling Kofi and told him "maybe some day you'll get over" so a drunk Jericho told Kofi he had to do something about it which led to Kofi and Vince fighting on the plane and Vince laughing about it and respecting Kofi for trying to shoot on him.
>>19090266I think Vince saying he liked Mero was a rib. They all wanted to fuck Sable and thought she would be a star. That jettisoned Mero as soon as they could and kept his wife and literally broke his marriage apart. Corny talks about how Vince and Russo were seemingly obsessed with her and he didn’t get it because it’s not like she was the first Big titted bimbo in the wrestling business.
I’ve told this story on /asp/ before I think. One of my close friends worked for Joey Styles as an editor at WWE.comThis was when they were transitioning the stuff over from the old WWF Magazine, that’s basically what the website was then. “In character” interviews that of course the guys in the office wrote, that sort of thing. Vince comes around shaking everyone’s hand, keep up the good work, I like the cut of your jib, that sort of thing. My friend shakes Vince’s hand and Vince looks at him with a sort of disgusted look. He walks into Joey Styles’ office and they are both looking out the window at him. At the end of the day he gets told he’s getting laid off at the end of the week. Fired because Vince didn’t like his handshake.
>>19086958>Guy obsessed with big, muscled men is secretly gay.Least surprising news ever.
>>19090361Did your friend give him a limp faggy handshake?
>>19090398Had a manager once, when I told her I never know how to go in with a handshake, and she said "you always go in strong" and I've broken like fifteen fingers since (not mine I swear)
>>19090409Suck my fucking 4inch brown cock gutsy.
>>19090398yeah. He’s not a shoot fag or even a frail sort of guy. He just didn’t come from wrestling, obviously he knew Vince existed but he came over from Penguin or Simon and Shuster or some place like that where he was working prior. He said Vince was shaking his hand an uncomfortably long time like he was an alien or something and wouldn’t let go. Obviously he was waiting for him to squeeze it and was somehow measuring whether he liked him or not by this first impression. He said Joey Styles didn’t seem shocked at all like, this is a thing that regularly happened.
>>19090427You should always use a firm handshake, wrestling world or not. But I get what you mean
>>19086901Damn, Codemeister was already cooking up kino back then.
>>19086934Arena screens maybe, but I am pretty sure Vince wasn't at houseshows.
>>19087022Posted one of the autoban words, probably. Screenshot the text and I will tell you what word it was.
>>19087022kek what a worked bitch
Some stories from mexico:When he wrestled in japan for the first time, Dralistico was so happy and excited he randomly did a backflip in the hotel´s hallway... breaking a lamp in the process. Everyone came out of their rooms to see what the fuck happened. Back in Mexico he got scolded by CMLL management (he was in japan because of CMLL´s relationship with NJPW) because they were told Dralistico was drunk (which wasn´t true)Blue Demon Jr is a big fan of gore movies. He even let his 10 years old son watch the Guinea Pig movies. He also likes games like Silent Hill, and says there was a time when Cibernetico would spend all day playing Silent Hill at his home with his son.Latin Lover almost got murdered by a fag once. At one show, while he was brawling with another wrestler among the crowd, he felt someone grab his ass, he turned around to confront the person and it was some tall guy with a big mustache, wearing a cowboy hat and trenchcoat. Latin punched him, then kept wrestling. After the show the man went to look for him backstage with a gun on his hand. The other wrestler had to help Latin flee the building. Months later, when they went back to that building, Cibernetico ribbed Latin by dressing up as the mustache man and barging into the locker room yelling "WHERE IS LATIN? I AM GONNA KILL HIM!"CMLL wrestlers used to have an initiation ritual that consisted of newbies getting slammed by the veteran wrestlers. Then they were told to lay down in the middle of the ring in starfish position, close their eyes and brace themselves for receiving a dive (while maintaining the starfish position). In reality, they didnt receive a dive, some other other wrestler would just shove his ass on their faces.El Hijo del Santo was nicknamed "the genie" by other wrestlers... because he pops up whenever someone opens a bottle (of alcohol).Despite Mil Mascaras being one of the most respected wrestlers ever, luchadores love to make fun of him by imitati
>>19090634Sorry, Candlejack took me.I was saying luchadores love to make fun of Mil Mascaras by imitating him, it has come the point they say the ability of imitating him is more fundamental for a luchador than taking any bump.
>>19090694>luchadores worked a rib into a shootThat's probably the most based thing I've ever heard
Steiners raped a man as a rib.
>>19090694Hey man careful talking about Candleja
>>19090827Candlejack doesn't get you until after you say hi
What was that Vince story about mixing up the names of two black guys then no selling it
hogwheels is mad today, wonder what set off the Irish cripple this time?
>>19090855What are you referring to?
>>19087669>didn't showerFoley has always come off as a guy with a comically tiny cock. Like almost non-existent, which considering his height, is really funny.
>>19090855Wheels didn’t like being called out!
Steve Austin drunkenly attacked Billy Gunn in their hotel room once> “We get out of the car and I put the key in the door.” Gunn recalled, “the door barely cracks and I get crushed! I thought somebody had tried to mug us. I literally get crushed and I look around and lo and behold it’s little Steve, it’s still little Steve, and he’s trying to kick the s–t out of me! Like, I’m not understanding where this had come from. So I put the brakes on it by trying to choke him out. He goes, ‘okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.’ I go, ‘okay.’ I get up, go to walk across to the couch, and wham, I get Pearl Harbored again! So now we’re tussling around again. I finally hook him. What am I going to let you go for?”>I go, ‘what is wrong with you? What are you doing?’ I go, ‘stop it!’ He goes, ‘okay.’ I go, ‘do you promise?’ He goes, ‘yes,’ so I go this time and take him for his word. I let him up and here we go again. So now we’re crashing through things. I hook him up again and I go, ‘this is it.’ I said to him, ‘I’m going to rip your head off if you don’t stop!’ I go, ‘stop!’ He goes, ‘okay.’ I go, ‘do you promise?’ He goes, ‘yes!’ I go, ‘do you swear?’ He goes, ‘yes, I swear on my kids.’ I went, ‘okay, alright.’ So you swear on that. I get up. Here it comes! I’m walking through the door. He hits me into the door and goes, ‘I’ve got billygoats!'”
>>19090855>Thread about based Vince stories >This is an attack on AEW!Lol
>>19090915>I’ve got billygoats!Kek Steve
>>19090533No, Ive posted the whole story here before.https://archive.palanq.win/pw/thread/18408639/#18408755We just have literal AI jannies now who are fucking up, or I pissed off an actual tranny janny with something I posted previously that's not against the rules and he ip stalked and banned for nothing the next time I made a post
Takes 45 minutes in averageI don't even notice, at some point I space the sentences and someone heards a head on table soundI blamed many things
take the wrestling fig out your bussy playa
>>19090854JTG and Shelton
