With the change in power structure in the WWE following Vince McMahon leaving, more and more is starting to come out about what happened behind closed doors and a lot of it substantiates what others have previously said.
With Triple H taking over the creative control, more information is coming out on how things were run under Vince McMahon, and some aren’t surprising while others are.
We’ve heard stories from Jim Ross and Jim Cornette about Vince yelling, cursing, and insulting his commentators over their headsets to say the phrase he wanted among other things.
This seems to be backed up by a report from Fightful Select where a former production employee stated (special thanks to wreslingnews.co for the transcript):
“If a live feed of Vince McMahon on a headset any given night ever made it out, that it would provide a picture of that production experience, especially for the announcers. There were plenty of times he was in a good mood, but he would blow up at the most ridiculous things and act like they ruined an angle far past its expiration date anyway.”
Was Vince out of touch?
One of the arguments/accusations many frustrated fans have made over the years is that Vince was out of touch with the audience. Jim Cornette has stated on his podcast that Vince seems to have lost his ability to spot talent.
Whatever the case was, according to Fightful, the creative process behind the scenes saw the writers filtering Vince.
The writers reportedly needed to know how to filter Vince as they had to know what not to write for him while taking notes from Vince.
Vince would allegedly say things that varied from insensitive to offensive to “Oh God, what did he just say?”
Vince would also reportedly call people the wrong names and use terms that weren’t socially acceptable and he would never use on air.
But more than that, it looks like fan complaints about the repetitive nature of WWE TV from repeated finishes, angles, and storyline night to night were because Vince may not have remembered them.
It came about when one person told Fightful the biggest change between Vince running creative and Triple H doing so will be: “Recall of what we have and haven’t done repeatedly. There were so many things that Vince insisted on doing that I’m pretty sure he didn’t remember doing over and over again, even when people would tell him.”
Over the last three shows, including SummerSlam, that Triple H has run, there’s been a marked difference in the shows. There’s more energy, better continuity, and we’ve been getting different matches without the same endings.
Vince did some great things and was a genius in his time, but it sounds like his stepping aside was needed.
What do you think about the reports on him needing to be filtered? Let us know in the comments below.
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