Shawn Michaels Says Vince McMahon Used To Joke About Dying At Gorilla Position

Two-time WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels has claimed that Vince McMahon had expressed no desire to retire and had, in fact, joked about 'dying' while working at WWE's makeshift backstage control centre, AKA the Gorilla Position.

Speaking during an appearance on The MMA Hour, the company's Senior Vice President of Talent Development Creative was asked if he ever envisioned McMahon retiring:

"No. You can talk about it, but I never envisioned the time when Vince wasn't there running stuff. All of us who have known him and worked with him for as long as we have, everyone knows, and I mean this lovingly, but he wanted to pass at his desk. That's who he is. That's how he's built. I had every reason to believe that's exactly what he was going to do. He always made jokes that, 'If I die at Gorilla position, the show has to go on. Don't move me. We got to get to seg 10 and 11 and finish the show'. You can talk about it, again, there's lots of big talk in our line of work, but very rarely you see it get delivered on, but he's always done what he's felt was best for business".

McMahon suddenly retired on July 22 amid an ongoing investigation into his conduct, after an investigation unearthed reported hush-money payments he had made to several women, including former WWE employees.

H/T WrestlingNews.co