Vince McMahon is... well you already know. And although it's fun to watch the character on screen, sometimes the man behind the mask comes out and it's wonderful. Now sit back and enjoy the show as Adam breaks down the top 10 times Vince McMahon lost his sh*t on camera.
What are your favorite McMahon moments?
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0:00 Intro
1:31 #10
2:27 #9
3:29 #8
4:34 #7
5:37 #6
6:44 #5
7:48 #4
8:40 #3
9:35 #2
10:33 #1
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What are your favorite McMahon moments?
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:31 #10
2:27 #9
3:29 #8
4:34 #7
5:37 #6
6:44 #5
7:48 #4
8:40 #3
9:35 #2
10:33 #1
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00:00 Vincent Kennedy McMahon, the possessor of grapefruits, the genetic jackhammer, the Colonel
00:06 Sanders of crazy meat, the Prime Minister of silly walks, the patron saint of hilarious
00:12 nonsense, the eternal barnacle on the patience of the impatient, the biggest troll in the
00:17 known universe, the world's least convincing alien, what you would get if you committed
00:21 billions of dollars to scientifically engineer the most Republican, the ghost of ludicrous
00:26 masculinity past, present and future, the love child of a Ninja Turtles villain and
00:31 the sheer distillation of horniness, a million grandpas screaming out in madness and never
00:36 being silenced, the chairman of the board and the Donald's favourite demon.
00:40 He's mad, basically, is what I'm trying to say.
00:43 An incredibly famous captain of industry, sailing a ship made of cruelty through the
00:46 high seas of our never-ending nightmares, and gosh look how weird he is.
00:50 This week we're talking purely about Vince, Vince alone, casting a spotlight on all the
00:54 times that Vince has lost his freaking mind, whilst also having recording equipment pointed
00:58 in his direction.
00:59 Some of these will be kayfabe just for a bit of mad flavour to show just how silly his
01:02 legacy is, but most will be real life incidents of the mask slipping and the times we stumbled
01:07 across actual moments of madness in amidst all the storytelling nuggets of gold in a
01:11 storm of insanity.
01:12 It'll be fun.
01:13 I'm Adam, hailing from partsFUNknown, and here are 10 times Vince McMahon lost his s***
01:18 on camera.
01:19 If you don't want Luke Owen to lose his s*** on you, you better like and subscribe, buddy.
01:26 He's a loose cannon, and we can only hold him back so much.
01:30 Number 10 - DX breaks the limo
01:33 Okay, we'll start with kayfabe and one of Vince's lesser known freakouts, but also possibly
01:37 his funniest.
01:38 The 2006 reunion of DX was moderately bad.
01:42 It had some fun moments, like when quadruple HBK dressed up as Vince and Shane like they
01:46 were on their way to the world's sweatiest convention, but most of it was just an overreliance
01:49 on how funny the word "cock" was.
01:51 Some stuff featured poop, and just a whole load of the big show's whole ass.
01:55 But this moment is wonderful.
01:56 On the August 21st episode of Raw in 2006, DX daubed their logo on Titan Towers, which
02:01 already made Vince a very sad corporate panda, but right at the end of the episode, DX rigged
02:05 the chairman's limo to fall apart, the back wheels snapping off as they drove away, leading
02:10 to a gut-busting few minutes of Vince grabbing his head and just wailing into the night air.
02:16 WAAA!
02:17 WAAA!
02:18 Like the penguin, but slightly less in touch with the common man.
02:20 He almost kills his limo driver, kicks the car over and over, all while yelling and yelling.
02:25 I just love it.
02:26 9.
02:27 Vince and Titus
02:28 Ok, that's our bit of fun out of the way, let's look at some real life lack of composure
02:32 now and one of the most awkward wrestling moments in recent memory.
02:34 February 8th, 2016's episode of Raw should have gone down in history as a somber and
02:39 bittersweet celebration of Daniel Bryan, where he's shoot-retired over health concerns,
02:43 shedding tears, swelling emotions and driving the word 'grateful' right into our collective
02:47 heart.
02:48 It should have been, but instead wrestling fans remember it as the episode where Vince
02:50 and Titus O'Neil come to blows live on camera over the world's silliest argument.
02:55 It makes zero sense from anyone's perspective.
02:58 Vince and his family are walking to the back through a sea of emotional wrestlers.
03:02 Emotions are running very high when Titus O'Neil reaches out and grabs Vince by the
03:06 arm, with the reason being so the story goes so that Vince could let Stephanie go for chivalry
03:11 and all that.
03:12 It's an emotional chat, more so than most, and the grab snaps him out of a maudlin fugue
03:15 state and right into his fight or flight response, and Vince has no flight response.
03:19 He shoves Titus with all his might in front of an arena full of fans and promptly suspends
03:23 him for 30 days.
03:24 It's all so weird.
03:25 Why did any of this happen?
03:26 Don't cross the bus, I guess.
03:28 Number 8.
03:29 Vince doesn't like guns Another moment of worked craziness from Vince,
03:32 and another one lost in people's memories, primarily because it comes from a time before
03:36 the character of Mr. McMahon and Vince's rapid plummet into the depths of wicked panto
03:40 chicken realness.
03:41 Instead, this is a moment from way back in 1985 on an episode of Tuesday Night Titans,
03:46 WWE's incredibly silly talk show full of cartoonish character segments and Vince interviewing
03:50 wrestlers with the help of Lord Alfred Hayes, aka what would have happened if Bobby Heaton
03:53 had been raised in Downton Abbey.
03:55 TNT was like Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge, but for wrestling, all the
03:59 way down to a moment of a gun misfiring.
04:01 The episode we're talking about is the TNT that aired February 28th, 1985, and it's
04:05 already a weird show.
04:06 Vince interviews female referee Rita Marie, the woman who would later leave the company
04:10 and make very serious allegations against Vince himself.
04:13 Later in the ep, Vince would then interview Dr. D. David Schultz about the infamous moment
04:17 he slapped John Stossel on camera for another segment where Schultz shows Vince his collection
04:21 of guns, one of which goes off and Vince absolutely loses his mind, just shouting "you stupid
04:28 idiot" over and over, and it's the first glimpse of Crazy Vince, and it's wonderful.
04:34 Number 7.
04:35 On the Record with Bob Costas You know what Vince is super good at?
04:38 Taking criticism.
04:39 He's an absolute master of just letting his tension and frustration roll right off
04:42 his back and creating a calm and peaceful environment for calm and reasoned debate.
04:46 Not a single word of that is true, of course.
04:48 As you'd know if you've ever seen Vince get grilled in an interview, and we have a
04:50 perfect trilogy for you right here.
04:53 First up, Vince's appearance on Bob Costas On the Record in 2001, and it's a fist in
04:57 the mouth, bum clenchingly awkward interview where Bob talks to Vince about the failure
05:01 of the XFL and the controversial Trish Barks Like a Dog segment.
05:04 Bob interrupts Vince a few times, which is up there with flicking a lion in the eye in
05:08 terms of good ideas, and Vince gets noticeably pissed.
05:11 Leaning forward in his chair, jabbing a finger in Bob's face, even doing a not-at-all-veiled
05:15 stand-up routine about how this was the Bob Costas Interrupt Program.
05:19 A thick vein of tension runs throughout the entire segment, with Vince upping the ante
05:23 and professing to be having fun, all while staying right up in Bob's grill, ending
05:28 on a handshake with so much macho squeezing behind it that Bob Costas actually briefly
05:32 stops speaking mid-sentence.
05:34 That's how much Vince is trying to break his hand.
05:36 He's a big old weirdo.
05:38 6.
05:39 Vince Does a JR
05:40 Why does Vince hate Jim Ross so much?
05:43 Maybe he doesn't hate him.
05:44 Maybe he actually loves him, and this is how Vince shows his love, like Big Daddy Psycho.
05:48 From shifting JR's brand live on TV without telling him, to the Dr. Hiney nonsense, to
05:52 just straight-up repeatedly firing the man.
05:54 It's such a weird relationship the two men had, where one just did his job, and the other
05:59 one was repeatedly a massive wanged him at each and every opportunity.
06:02 The worst of which being a segment Vince shared with Hornswoggle, his former son, on an episode
06:07 of Raw June 11th, 2012.
06:09 I guess losing his s*** would be a fairly generous term for what happens next, but it's
06:13 certainly a bizarre glimpse into the real-life psyche of a corporate manager who is in total
06:17 control of what his company broadcasts, actually choosing to broadcast this.
06:22 It's almost as baffling as Vince choosing to broadcast himself saying the N-word back
06:25 in '05, except this moment can still be found on the network.
06:28 Vince puts on a Jim Ross-style cowboy hat, shouts "Stone Cold, Stone Cold" in the trademark
06:32 JR way, but not before pulling his face into a Richter's Grimmix specifically designed
06:37 to mock Ross's Bell's Palsy.
06:38 Again, not so much a blow-up, but what an insane thing to put on a TV show in 2012.
06:43 5.
06:44 Inside Edition
06:45 Part 2 of the Vince McMahon has absolutely no chill when it comes to interviews trilogy,
06:49 this time for a segment back in 1998.
06:51 '98 was the year that wrestling truly returned to the mainstream, with the attitude era becoming
06:55 insanely popular with teens and young adults especially.
06:58 The flip side of that newfound popularity was a string of worried thought pieces from
07:01 news stations wondering what this meant for the nation's youth, including this one from
07:05 Inside Edition.
07:06 During the interview, Vince performs a bit of the clearly very rattled and annoyed but
07:10 playing it off as overly jovial routine that Bob Costas took both barrels of.
07:14 When the interviewer suggests "You're telling people this kind of behavior is okay?" he
07:17 shouts with a genuine, unsettling smile on his face, "Don't tell me what I'm saying!
07:22 You want to ask me?
07:23 I'll tell you what I'm saying!" before leaning forward and saying one more time, "Insane
07:28 you're in intact.
07:29 Don't tell me what I'm saying!"
07:32 Later when the host is listing all of the content that's appeared on Raw recently,
07:35 including the number of times the Godfather brought prostitutes to the ring, Vince says
07:38 "Whoa, whoa, whoa.
07:39 You want to play here?
07:40 I'm ready to play.
07:42 I've got no problem playing with you."
07:44 And honestly, I don't know what Vince thinks playing is, but I'm guessing he's not referring
07:48 to board games.
07:49 #4 - Brock's an Asshole
07:51 A recent bit of real-life drama, a mere three years ago at WrestleMania 34, everyone's favorite
07:56 feud that refuses to go away, Brock Lesnar vs Roman Reigns, played out in the main event
08:00 of the show of shows, and to call it a catastrophe would be to give catastrophes a bad name.
08:03 The match stank out the joint, with fans pelting it with chants of "boring" and soundly booing
08:08 vast chunks of the action.
08:09 You know who doesn't take kindly to being booed?
08:11 That would be Brocktopus Q Lesnarpus, who when faced with a similar amount of hostility
08:15 that he had faced and responded well to at WrestleMania 20, stormed backstage after pinning
08:19 Reigns and on camera for a documentary crew to see, threw the belt across the room, which
08:24 landed on Vince's desk and grew to a "Vince!"
08:26 Shaken manages to let out a single scream of "asshole" before Brock's gone back to
08:31 the cave where he keeps his deer carcasses, hunting rifles, and sables.
08:34 It's rare to see a moment where Vince is one of the least crazy people in the room, but
08:37 still a rare on-camera moment of Vince losing his cool.
08:41 #3 - Real Sports
08:42 Oh man, and we're capping off our trilogy of Vince being a nutter to interviewers with
08:46 a display of hyper-masculine aggression that genuinely wouldn't look out of place in the
08:50 most by-the-numbers high school movie ever made.
08:52 Maybe not as an excuse, more of an explanation, but Vince is being interviewed about deaths
08:55 in pro wrestling here by Real Sports.
08:57 Obviously a much more heated topic than "that Trish thing was weird" and "what's the deal
09:02 with all the hoes?"
09:03 Instead, the line of questioning was more "are you in any way responsible for the premature
09:06 deaths of wrestlers who wrestled for you at one time?" and Vince is having none of it.
09:11 For the most part he maintains an incredibly careful and menacing drawl, but once, just
09:16 once, he breaks.
09:17 You can almost see it happen in slow motion.
09:18 He's interrupted, closes his eyes, tries to keep it in check before pulling a comedy boohoo
09:23 face and, no joke, tries to slap the papers out of his interviewer's hands like a high
09:27 school jock trying to knock a nerd's homework from his hands.
09:31 In the face of scrutiny, Vince lost his cool and turned into a macho parody.
09:35 #2 - A F*CKING BEATING
09:37 If there was one thing Vince used to be relied on for, it was for a good promo.
09:41 Genuinely, for a time, he might just have been the best promo in his own company.
09:45 Someone on whom you could depend for a larger-than-life performance of Hutzpah and Villainy.
09:48 But we all get older, and part of that, as much as Vince might refuse to admit it, is
09:51 a diminished capacity for skills and talents that once came so easily.
09:55 Vince isn't that great a promo anymore.
09:57 Often he's downright bad.
09:59 But this was one of the first proper warning signs, where the chairman of the board, the
10:02 emperor of his company's own message, who dictates all of the words that announcers,
10:07 wrestlers and commentators are banned from using, lost his cool in a promo to the extent
10:11 he dropped an F-bomb into a live mic.
10:14 It's mad.
10:15 In the very 22nd episode of Raw in 2016, shortly after Shay McMahon returned for a super weird
10:19 feud with The Undertaker, Vince threatened his son, reveling in, quote, "one last opportunity"
10:24 to give him a f*cking beating.
10:26 Jesus, Vince, you potty mouth.
10:28 Brad Maddox got canned for calling the fans cocky pricks during a dark segment.
10:32 You just raised the stakes.
10:33 And number one, the 2005 Royal Rumble.
10:35 Ah yes, the moment you all came to see where Vince lost his cool so much that he fired
10:40 his own legs.
10:41 It's an overtold story, so we'll keep it brief.
10:43 Cena and Batista botched the finish to the Rumble, went out at the same time - Vince
10:46 got ticked off about that - stormed down to the ring, hurled his jacket to the ground,
10:50 and he ran in, ready for an impromptu bit of in-the-moment crisis management, but blew
10:55 out both his quads sliding into the ring and just had to sit on the ring canvas in a tremendous
10:58 storm of anger and pain, like a concertgoer who'd just been told that the Eagles were
11:02 not in fact coming out for an encore.
11:04 The audacity.
11:05 A total implosion of mind, body and soul from one of the maddest to ever do it.
11:10 Vince, never change.
11:12 Unless you can.
11:13 In which case, do so.
11:15 And that's our list.
11:16 What's your favourite Vince McMahon is a massive crazy person moment?
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