• “I was trying not to vomit” – Former WWE Star On Infamous Roman Reigns Segment
2019 is considered to be one of the lowest points in WWE’s history. The company struggled to sell out arenas, and ratings for TV shows were dipping. Fans were not pleased with the storylines going on in the company.
One of the most controversial feuds of that year was between Roman Reigns and Baron Corbin. It revolved around dog food for a while because of Roman’s ‘The Big Dog’ character at the time.
Baron Corbin and Dolph Ziggler poured dog food on Roman in a segment on SmackDown that year. The former Undisputed WWE Champion got payback in the end as he showered Corbin in dog food later.
While speaking about the feud on Fightful‘s In The Weeds, Corbin revealed that former WWE CEO Vince McMahon wanted to test how the dog food looked coming out of the can, so he experimented on an extra backstage.
“This is not a pitching thing. This is a, ‘Hey, this is what we’re doing.’ ‘Yes, sir.’ It was legit dog food, and it smelled God awful. I was trying not to vomit while I was putting it on him. If you watch the clip, I’m making a weird face because it smelled so bad.
Here is the best part of it all, that nobody was privy to. In the back, Vince wanted to see how it poured out of the cans. They just took an extra and had him stand there, and they opened the can and poured it on the extra’s head to see what it would look like.”
• “Vince McMahon jumped my a$$ backstage for being dangerous” – Former WWE Star
The main event of WWE Survivor Series 2004 featured Team Orton (Randy Orton, Chris Benoit, Maven and Chris Jericho) vs. Team Triple H (Triple H, Batista, Edge and Gene Snitsky).
During the match, Maven went overboard with one of his forearms and ended up legitimately hurting Snitsky.
While recalling the incident on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, Maven talked about the heat he received from Vince McMahon when he returned backstage:
“I just overdid it. I had thrown endless number of flying forearms, and that one, I still remember hitting him and feeling the crunch and being like, ‘Oh God.’ Vince jumped my a$$ backstage for that too.
Soon as I came back through, Vince meets me, he jumps up from the monitor, meets me at gorilla just yelling at me for being dangerous. And he’s like, ‘You better go check on Snitsky now!’ I’m sitting there bleeding, just got took a chair shot, you know. I’m fine, Vince. Thanks.”
Maven departed from WWE less than a year after the incident.
• “We had terrible chemistry” – Ric Flair On Rehearsing WrestleMania Match With WWF Legend
Ric Flair is one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He had many classic matches in his illustrious career. One of his greatest opponents was “Macho Man” Randy Savage.
The two WWE Hall of Famers faced off multiple times in different companies. They had a memorable match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania VIII, which is cherished by a lot of old school fans.
The Nature Boy feels like he did not have good chemistry with The Macho Man because they approached matches in different ways.
Here’s what he said in an interview with The Escapist:
“No, we had terrible chemistry. He wanted to rehearse and I didn’t rehearse. I only did it for WrestleMania. Instead of having a week off, I had to come to Tampa and wrestle for three hours a day with him to memorize a match. And that just wasn’t my style. You have to feel the crowd.”
• “Vince did it just to pi$$ off white people” – Attitude Era Star On Owen Hart Being In The Nation Of Domination
The Nation Of Domination was one of the most popular factions of the Attitude Era. It went through some changes over time, and one of them was the inclusion of the late Owen Hart in the group, which is a hot topic of discussion among fans to date.
WWE Hall of Famer The Godfather spoke about the faction on his Poddin’ Ain’t Easy podcast. He said that the initial members of the group were chosen to represent diversity in order to avoid any controversy.
“At first, when they started that, Vince didn’t want it to be too powerful, and he didn’t want it to be as powerful as it got. He didn’t want to offend too many people. So at first, the Nation involved a Puerto Rican (Savio Vega), a white guy, a Hawaiian (Crush), a black guy (Faarooq), some rappers (PG-13).”
He went on to talk about how nobody knew why Owen Hart was added to the group.
“Even back then, I still don’t understand why Owen Hart was in The Nation. Nobody, I talked to D’Lo, I talked to everybody, nobody has no idea.”
The former Intercontinental Champion stated that the theory among the group was that Vince McMahon just did it to offend white people.
“I think Vince did it just to pi$$ off white people.”
He then mentioned that no one in the group had a problem with Owen being a part of it as everyone liked him.
“You know what? We all liked Owen so much… that nobody gave a damn because it was Owen. The great thing about it is none of us gave a damn. We all loved Owen… We were happy to have him.”
