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Vince McMahon Threatened To Fire Michael Cole For Mentioning WWF Legend On TV

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• Vince McMahon Threatened To Fire Michael Cole For Mentioning WWF Legend On TV

During a Q&A session at last weekend’s Steel City Con, WWE Hall Of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield talked about Michael Cole, who is working as a play-by-play commentator since 1997.

The former WWE Champion revealed that when Deuce (of the Tag Team Deuce & Domino) started to wrestle for the WWE during the late Ruthless Aggression Era, Cole was instructed by Vince McMahon not to mention Deuce’s famous father, WWF Legend ‘Superfly’ Jimmy Snuka, but ended up doing the one thing he was asked not to do.

Here’s what JBL had to say about the incident:

“Vince’s response was, ‘Michael, I’m gonna come down there and I’m gonna fire you. No, I’m gonna come down there and I’m gonna kick your a$$, No, I’m not’.

He’s debating with himself at this point and he goes, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no. I’m gonna kick your a$$ and then I’m going to fire you. That’s what I’m gonna do. I’m coming down right now’.”

WWE eventually started to acknowledge Deuce as Jimmy Snuka’s son during the early PG era and changed his name to ‘Sim Snuka’.

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• ON THIS DAY IN WCW HISTORY (December 20, 1999) – WCW MONDAY NITRO

On this day in 1999, Ted Turner’s World Championship Wrestling aired another LIVE episode of their weekly TV show ‘WCW MONDAY NITRO’.

It was broadcasted from the Baltimore Arena in Baltimore, Maryland and featured matches, interviews & storyline segments on the road to the ‘WCW Souled Out 2000’ PPV.

The match-card can be found here:

1. WCW Cruiserweight Title: Madusa vs. Buzzkill

2. Hugh Morrus vs. Curt Hennig

3. Tank Abbott vs. Jerry Flynn

4. Norman Smiley & Meng vs. Fit Finlay & Brian Knobbs

5. The Maestro vs. Evan Karagias

6. Chris Kanyon vs. Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Diamond Dallas Page

7. WCW US Title – Ladder Match: Chris Benoit vs. Jeff Jarrett

8. Sid Vicious vs. The Wall

9. Mike Rotunda & Rick Steiner vs. Harlem Heat

10. Bret Hart vs. Goldberg (birth of nWo 2000)


        
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