Rejected Pitch For WWE To Form A New Political Party Revealed

In what he has claimed is "the biggest angle the WWF/WWE could have ever done", Jesse Ventura has revealed he pitched for the company to form a political party and have him run for President of the United States as their nominee.

"Vince told me that he would back me on anything political that I wanted to do. So I went out to him and I said, 'Vince, we can do an angle right now. You can come out with the WWE and say we're going to have our own nominee for president, the WWE party, the World Wrestling Party,'" Ventura said on Insight with Chris Van Vliet.

"Meanwhile, Vince has people in every state, he can send those people, get ballot access, and do what's required to get on the ballot in all 50 states. He could do that for me. I said, then you work the angle Vince where everybody thinks it's going to be you. You're going to be the nominee. But we do something where I come in and say bullsh*t, I'm a governor. I'm the natural WWE candidate for president, then you do a schmoz where Vince and I get two wrestlers to represent us. Whoever wins gets the nomination. My guy beats Vince's guy. I then become the nominee of the World Wrestling Federation for president and I have ballot access in all 50 states because Vince could have done it," Ventura continued.

The angle ultimately didn't come together as it was turned down by Vince McMahon.

"Well, here's the part that p*ssed me off and where Vince and I big time separated. I flew home. He didn't even bother to call me to turn me down. I thought that was the most disrespectful thing. First and foremost, when I flew out there, he made me wait an hour. I'm the former governor. I'm out of office now. Then I shoot him this angle. If he did just call me and said, 'Jesse, it's too crazy. It's too hokey. I don't think we can do it', I would have said fine. I gave it a try. But he didn't even call me back. That was so disrespectful to me as Governor Jesse Ventura, as Jesse Ventura the man and as Jesse Ventura who made Vince a ton of money," Ventura added.

Jesse Ventura previously served as the Governor of Minnesota from 1999 until 2003. Ventura has also revealed that he has agreed to a new deal with WWE.