Select Answers EXCLUSIVE: Another Crazy Vince McMahon Backstage Story (Patreon)

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The Vince McMahon/Hulk Hogan/WrestleMania story was insane, and funny in the dumbest way. Are there other instances you've heard of regarding Vince getting angrily hung up on things?

One particular situation comes to mind.

When Tyson Fury did his absolutely horrible, abysmal, ill fated WWE run, WWE had high hopes for him, specifically Vince McMahon. Everyone thought that Floyd Mayweather did a great job over a decade before, helped draw, and was easy to deal with. Vince McMahon had always wanted a HEAVYWEIGHT World Champion involved, and undefeated Tyson Fury was among them.

One story that we heard was that Vince McMahon flew off the handle regarding a specific line from one of his on screen personalities -- well, more of an omission. Renee Paquette, then Renee Young, had done an introduction of Tyson Fury, or mentioned him on programming and didn't refer to him specifically as the LINEAL World Heavyweight Champion -- something Vince McMahon wanted.

Fightful sources had been told that he screamed and raved. Similarly to him screaming that "One of the greatest WrestleMania moments of all time was ruined," by Hogan changing out of a pirate outfit, he also screamed that Tyson Fury's WWE run had therefore been RUINED by this omission on live TV.

Nobody else agreed. Tyson Fury had one of the worst wrestling matches of all-time at Crown Jewel 2019