Vince McMahon Scolded Announcer For Bizarre Reason
Vince McMahon screamed at Michael Cole as a show went off the air.
With Vince McMahon at the helm, there was a list of banned words and phrases that couldn’t used on television. This included an insistence that wrestlers were referred to as “Superstars,” and wrestling as “Sports Entertainment,” while words such as “hospital,” “belt” and “blood” were all banned.
However, on one particular night, it was a seemingly innocuous phrase that landed Michael Cole in hot water.
During the latest episode of Something to Wrestle, JBL recalled Cole getting yelled at just seconds before a show ended for using the word “that.”
“Vince didn’t like a lot of things like ‘very. You’re very happy.’ Learn english. Say ‘ecstatic.’ Vince didn’t like ‘that.’ He thought it sounded redneck-ish or stupid. He wanted better words. He wanted a more sophisticated commentary than that. He hated the word ‘that. That arm.’ That is no no. ‘The arm’ or ‘right arm.’ Vince hated the term ‘that’ and ‘the.’
We were coming off air and we did the old Von Erich cage door finish where he slams the door on the guy’s head. Something like that. Michael (Cole) had the best notes and he would read those notes. He was so good and so professional.
Michael is going over the finish, promoting Raw or something coming up. Michael is about seven seconds from being off air. He said, ‘Everything was going fine until he hit him with that door.’ You hear this baritone billionaire freaking erupt. I mean, erupt.
We’re seven seconds from going off air. Vince had this wonderful pay-per-view and he’s so happy until Michael says ‘that door.’ Vince goes, ‘Michael, did you go to Syracuse, you illiterate son of a b*tch. It’s f*cking the door! Not that door!’ Michael is trying to go off air and Vince is yelling at him about ‘that door’ and ‘the door.’
It was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Michael read the whole thing like Vince wasn’t even there. It was tremendous.”
Vince McMahon Referenced On Raw
On the December 30th edition of Raw, CM Punk took a not-so-subtle dig at Vince McMahon as he became embroiled in a war of words with Seth Rollins. In reference to his departure from the company in 2014, Punk said he “hated the guy in charge” who just so happened to love Rollins.
McMahon has been absent from WWE and the TKO Group since January 2024 when he was named in a lawsuit filed by former company employee Janel Grant. In the suit, Grant accuses McMahon of sexual abuse and sex trafficking. WWE and John Laurinaitis were also named. As a result of the lawsuit, McMahon has been the subject of a federal investigation.
H/t to Fightful