During his appearance on the “Monte & The Pharaoh” podcast, Marty Jannetty didn’t hesitate when the conversation shifted to long-standing rumors about Vince McMahon’s $exuality, saying that within the wrestling world, it was something everyone already knew.
When asked directly whether he had ever heard talk about Vince being bi$exual, Jannetty answered, “I mean, I hate to say this, but that’s pretty known. That’s not even… in the wrestling world, the wrestlers, we all know that. We all know that.”
Jannetty went on to recall how Scott Hall had once spoken openly about a conversation he claimed to have had with Vince himself. “Scott was one of the only ones to tell it,” Marty said. “He said he had a meeting with Vince and Vince told me, ‘Let me tell you, Scott, the first time I had a homo… homo whatever you call it… experience,’ and Scott was like, ‘What, the first time?’”
According to Jannetty, Vince wasn’t the only high-ranking figure with a reputation for being gay or bi$exual. Within WWF’s inner circle, he said it was simply accepted knowledge. “That’s just like Pat Patterson. Everybody knew he was gay,” Jannetty explained. “And Terry Garvin at one time was third in line. Everybody knew he was both ways. He had a wife… people say, ‘Oh, he’s married, he had kids.’ Most gay couples do.”
He also made it clear that he didn’t judge anyone for what they did in their personal lives, only that this information wasn’t shocking to people backstage.
When describing Vince, Jannetty used a phrase that described McMahon as someone who didn’t restrict himself. “He’s a… I would call him a no limit soldier. He ain’t got no limit. Anything both ways,” he said.
While the topic clearly wasn’t one he planned to bring up himself, Jannetty reiterated multiple times that it was widely understood among wrestlers. “Everybody knew that,” he said again when discussing Vince. “We all knew that.”
On his Kliq This podcast in 2022, Kevin Nash aired an old interview of Scott Hall, where Hall talked about Vince McMahon pitching him a storyline with Goldust and telling Hall about his first homo$exual experience. Below is what Hall said:
“I remember when Vince called me, and you gotta remember, this is a whole different era. We’re not allowed to fight on the floor, you don’t hit guys with chairs, nothing, and they’re real big on family entertainment.
So Vince calls me in and they were doing the Goldust thing and he goes, ‘We’re gonna do this Goldust thing. We’re gonna do this thing with you’, and he goes, ‘He’s gonna be in love with you.’
I remember thinking like, what? I just went through a long angle with Shawn and I worked with Kev, who was like a big killer.
[Vince] goes, ‘Let me tell you about my first homo$exual experience’, and I remember sitting, me and Kevin were both sitting in Vince’s office at TV. I looked at Kevin and my first thought was…
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