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9. Shane McMahon Is No Fan Of The Macho Man

Whatever happened between Randy Savage and Vince McMahon/WWE must have been really quite bad indeed, since the Macho Man was one of only a select few people who was never welcomed back to the company. 

Many point to unsubstantiated rumours about Savage and a member of the McMahon family, something that will surely only intensify after former WWE magazine editor Brian Solomon told a story about how Shane reacted to seeing a poster of Randy in the WWE magazine offices in Titan Towers. 

Appearing on the 6:05 Superpodcast with Brian Last, Solomon spoke about how he did an interview with Savage following the death of his ex-wife and fellow WWE superstar Miss Elizabeth in 2003. 

Asked why he believed the former Intercontinental and WWE Champion was persona non grata, he had this to say: 

"Nobody ever said why. I have to be honest without getting into all that. I never knew any of that while I was working there. I found out years later at least whatever rumours there were. I can tell you it was definitely a name that you can’t bring up. Among the jobber crew of us working there, you can say whatever you want. Among certain people, you definitely didn't want to bring that name up. 

We were such marks in that magazine. That division of the company was definitely composed of people who loved wrestling so we would do markish things. We would have wrestling posters on the wall. We had a Randy Savage one up. I remember at one time I was working for Shane McMahon. He was the head of our department for a little while. 

I remember he came out of his office. He saw the Randy Savage poster tacked to the wall. He walked over to it. He literally poked it as hard as he could with his fingers repeatedly until it fell off the wall, then he stepped on it, and walked back into his office".

See, it's not just his company's fantasy booking. Shane is a tough guy in real life, too!