Vince McMahon Recalls NWA Promoters Plotting To Kill Him
McMahon made a lot of enemies when expanding WWE
Much has been said of Vince McMahon destroying the classic American wrestling territories as he built WWE into a global organisation, but it seems McMahon was so disliked that rival promoters allegedly planned to kill him.
McMahon revealed this to Pat McAfee on The Pat McAfee Show, saying the following:
“There’s a story that Jim Ross was telling me one day. And he was with Bill Watts and some of the other old NWA guys, and they’re having this conference and there’s a whole bunch of them – ‘What are we gonna do about this kid that’s invading everything? Gotta do something about him’.”
McMahon was so disliked that rival promoters put their differences aside to try and take him out:
“Yeah, I was the gel (bonding them together). So, they’re meeting in terms of what can they possibly do. So now, Jim [Ross] is not part of the meeting, but Jim is now in the men’s room. And he’s in the men’s room in the stall taking care of business – in walks four of the most prominent promoters. And they’re talking about how they’re gonna off me. ‘This guy knows this guy, I know I can do this, this guy did this, it was really impressive’ - they all know people. So they’re all talking about who was gonna off me,” continued McMahon.
“So imagine Jim Ross. He’s on the throne, he hears this, it’s like, ‘Oh no, I’m gonna be accessory to murder’. So he takes one foot and puts it on the seat, takes the other one, puts it on the seat, so now they can’t see his feet below the stall. And of course mother nature is calling at the same time. So finally he waited for them to finish off, who was gonna kill me, and all that kinda crap. But that’s just one of those things.”
H/T: Wrestletalk