It is not any secret that one in all former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon’s favorite past times running WWE shows was getting irritated over the headset with commentators during matches. And former WWE announcer Todd Grisham was one in all the various that bore the brunt of Vince’s anger. Appearing on “Insight with Chris Van Vliet,” Grisham admitted that McMahon used to yell at him “on a regular basis” while he was doing commentary. But the largest blow occurred over something that did not look like a giant deal.
“I said that John Morrison, who was a heel on the time, loved poetry,” Grisham said. “Now, normally I would not say that, but there was a brand new WWE Magazine. They’d just transformed it from a results based, boring magazine…to more of a Maxim style, lifestyle magazine, ‘Get to know superstars higher.’ So that they were like ‘Any time you’ll be able to incorporate stuff from the magazine, do it. It helps sell the magazine. It helps sell their story. It synchs all the pieces up.’ Great.
“So that they did an entire thing on John Morrison, his finisher was called Starship Pain. He wrote a poem called Starship Pain. So he’s within the ring, and I’m going ‘John Morrison, Starship Pain. He’s a giant fan of poetry and wrote a poem in regards to the finisher Starship Pain.’ And Vince goes insane in my ear. ‘Did you only say our primary hero is an effing poet?! You silly eff! What the f**k?! Shut up! Just shut up! Don’t say the rest! Jim Ross…Jim, you call the remainder of this fight! I don’t need to listen to one other effing word out of you!'”
Grisham revealed that he spent the remainder of the match in silence while Ross did call the motion. It was just once it was over that McMahon gave Grisham the all clear to talk again, allowing Gresham to advertise an upcoming match heading into industrial.
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