• “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.”
• “He shook my hand because he had to, not because he wanted to” – Former WWE Star On Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels was a top talent and a locker room leader during his days as a pro wrestler, but he was also known to cause problems at times for his colleagues.
One name The Heartbreak Kid was apparently not a fan of was Maven.
Speaking on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet, Maven recalled his experiences with Michaels and said that he was continuously berated by the DX leader.
“I don’t know if it was an issue. As far as obviously, I was never going to be on Shawn’s level. You’re Shawn freaking Michaels. But every time I would go out and do anything, and mostly it was when he and I were tagging together, we would get backstage and obviously, if I’m doing a philosophy seminar and I got Aristotle beside me, I’m gonna want to ask him afterwards, did I get anything wrong? Tell me. How can I be better?
So I’m like that with Shawn, and he would berate me backstage, ‘Man, you can’t be like The Rock. Everything you try to do looks like you’re trying to be like The Rock.’ And if it was, then it was subconscious. I think we idolize people, so we then emulate people. I wouldn’t mean to, but yeah, he shook my hand because he had to, not because he wanted to.”
