During an interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Jesse Ventura talked about a storyline that he pitched to Vince McMahon, that was too big for the WWF boss.
Ventura also revealed how he felt disrespected by McMahon after the pitch. Here’s what he said:
“I came to Vince McMahon. I’ll reveal this to you. I flew out to Connecticut. I sat in Vince’s office with him and Linda, and I proposed the biggest angle the WWF could have ever done, and it was too big for Vince. Vince told me that he would back me on anything political that I wanted to do. So I went out to him and I said, ‘Vince, we can do an angle right now. You can come out with the WWE and say we’re going to have our own nominee for President, the WWE party, the World Wrestling Party’.
Meanwhile, Vince has people in every state, he can send those people, get ballot access, and do what’s required to get on the ballot in all 50 states. He could do that for me.
I said, ‘Then you work the angle Vince where everybody thinks it’s going to be you. You’re going to be the nominee. But we do something where I come in and say bullsh*t, I’m a Governor. I’m the natural WWE candidate for President.’
Then you do a schmoz where Vince and I get two wrestlers to represent us. Whoever wins gets the nomination. My guy beats Vince’s guy. I then become the nominee of the World Wrestling Federation for President and I have ballot access in all 50 states because Vince could have done it.
Well, here’s the part that pissed me off and where Vince and I big time separated. I flew home. He didn’t even bother to call me to turn me down. I thought that was the most disrespectful thing.
First and foremost, when I flew out there, he made me wait an hour. I’m the former Governor. I’m out of office now. Then I shoot him this angle. If he just called me and said, ‘Jesse, it’s too crazy. It’s too hokey. I don’t think we can do it.’ I would have said fine, I gave it a try. But he didn’t even call me back.
That was so disrespectful to me as Governor Jesse Ventura, as Jesse Ventura the man and as Jesse Ventura who made Vince a ton of money.”
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