Vince McMahon's Angry Reaction To Miro-Lana Engagement Leaking To TMZ Revealed

Vince McMahon is known for his past outbursts at WWE TV tapings and the WWE Executive Chairman was unable to contain his anger back in 2015 when news of Miro (then Rusev) and Lana's real-life engagement leaked to TMZ. 

Miro and Lana were separated on WWE TV at the time, with Lana having aligned with Dolph Ziggler in the summer of 2015 while Rusev had linked up with Summer Rae. Such was the publicity around the real-life engagement that WWE suddenly dropped the angle on TV. 

Appearing on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Summer Rae detailed Vince McMahon's reaction to the leak. 

"When the TMZ storyline got mysteriously leaked to TMZ, no one cared. We aren't Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, you know. That really set Vince off and like everyone, because, I don't know why, but we were like the favourite storyline of his. It was crazy. I think at the time, Cena had a storyline for four months and we were going on three, so it just wasn't something you were seeing like how they do nowadays, like amazing, long storylines. The storytelling in WWE right now is just really coming around so differently. It was interesting that we were getting crossover positions, like great, you know, positions. So when I went there, he was really upset. I think the head writers at the time were really upset too because they had just been so invested in it. I think the fans aren't dumb like to know that there was never a payoff, like we never had a payoff match. Lana and I never went back and forth. We never had the doubles match, so clearly something went wrong in the storyline," Summer Rae said.

"So when the Rusev-Lana storyline blew up in our faces, we were in Chicago. I lived in Chicago for seven years, big Bears fan, so people knew that. Usually I would get pretty solid reactions even if I was on Main Event or something. I was like, 'Oh, that's weird. I'm over.' We found out that day. I think they called me into the office. I don't even think it was Vince. I think the head writers called me and they were like, 'Hey, it's on TMZ. No one's bigger than WWE.' That's a big thing for Vince and Cena would always talk about that, like, no one's bigger than WWE and they don't want you to think that either. So like, 'Oh, you want to go to TMZ and say you guys are married, and that kind of ruins our storyline', which in my opinion, I don't think it did ruin it. It's kayfabe. But, 'You want to do that? Well, watch this. It's over. You're breaking up with him today. Do you want to write your own promo?' I'm like, 'What?' They're like, 'Okay, great. We're gonna put you together with a writer. You guys can go out and write it.'"

Miro now finds himself in All Elite Wrestling as one of the featured performers on AEW Collision. Both Summer Rae and Lana find themselves out of the industry.

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