Vince McMahon Called Out Ex-WWE Star For Being Too Spectacular
Vince McMahon was less than impressed by one high-flyer.
After letting his WWE contract expire, Ricochet made his AEW debut at All In at Wembley Stadium. The move had been expected for several weeks following reports the star was looking to move on.
Although the star won several championships across a six-year spell with WWE, many fans felt he underachieved, largely through issues out of his control.
Interestingly, the man himself has now revealed he was told on more than one occasion to cut things out of his in-ring repertoire. This included one such moment where he was told off by Vince McMahon after a match.
Vince McMahon Wasn’t Impressed By Ricochet
During an appearance on Talk Is Jericho, Ricochet looked back at his time with WWE. The undefeated AEW star suggested he wasn’t able to show his true ability as he could never wrestle people who were a similar size.
He went on to recall two instances where he was told he needed to alter what he did in the ring so he wouldn’t outshine physically bigger stars.
“I didn’t even really wrestle people my size. I didn’t wrestle A.J. Styles a lot or I didn’t wrestle Johnny Gargano. I was always in there with Drew McIntyre or Bobby Lashley or Sheamus. I was always in there with the biggest dude. (It’s still a big man’s territory) Which is fine, which is great…
And to add on to that, it’s like, I can give you a suplex or I can give — I can’t give Bobby Lashley a suplex or like, even one time, me and Drew were in there and we did something and I did something, obviously I went to pick him up and I couldn’t pick him up and then we did a story where I gave him a couple kicks and he fell into the ropes and he came out and I used his momentum to pick him up and give him a move, and I came to the back and they said, ‘No, you can’t do that.’
Literally, they told me, ‘You can’t do that. You can’t pick Drew up. It makes him look bad.’ But I can squat over 400-plus pounds, so it’s like, you know what I mean? …
One time, I was wrestling RETRIBUTION. It was (Mustafa) Ali, (Donovan) Dijak, who was T-BAR. Mason Madden, one of the big models. So they were a big group. They used to just beat my ass every week. It went from Hurt Business beating my ass to RETRIBUTION beating my ass, for like weeks. But I did one spot in the match where one guy would get a dropkick and duck one. Then one guy gets something and then do a thing on the something.
Anyways, I still lost the match but it’s like my one spot in the match, and then it ends with a dive and then it ends with something, and then I just remember coming to the back, everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s great’ and then, I remember Vince (McMahon) being like, ‘Yeah, that was too spectacular.’
He goes, ‘John Cena couldn’t even do that.’ In my head I’m thinking, well no. No, he can’t do that. He literally can’t do that. I understand. I agree with you. But, I’m just so confused and… But I’m the type of person, if I start to say something, I’ma say too much (he laughed). I’ma say too much.
Ask anybody who knows me. I get it from my mom. So I just say, ‘Okay…’ What am I gonna start an argument with Vince? No.”
Vince McMahon has been back in the news in recent days following the release of the “Mr. McMahon” documentary on Netflix. During the six-part series, McMahon made a series of wild claims, including saying people who retire should die.
Meanwhile, Ricochet is due to challenge Will Ospreay for the International Title on the October 2nd episode of Dynamite.
H/t to POST Wrestling