10 Most INFURIATING WWE Quirks
Placing the language #UnderSiege.
Vince McMahon is nothing if not an enigma.
He is the most successful wrestling promotor of all time, despite appearing to loathe, or at least resent, the industry he has dominated. Perhaps embarrassment is a more suitable word which, again, is strange: McMahon does not embarrass easily. If you hear him taking a gigantic sh*t, and complain about it, he will hire you as a backstage interviewer. Notoriously, McMahon, who in 36 years of running WWE has never once deviated from using belts to decorate his champions, loathes the word "belt". He cannot abide by it. It is not a belt. It is a Championship. It is also, quite clearly, a belt. Maybe he did go blind, as was rumoured in 2015. Or maybe he is just batsh*t crazy.
Of course, "belt" is far from the only language quirk McMahon is intent on controlling in his own image.
A guilty pleasure of being a WWE fan is listening out for occasions in which a commentator fails to adhere to his warped policies. You just know the ensuing four seconds of dead air is filled in the headset with an apoplectic lecture. Sometimes, you need to make your own fun.
There are only so many times you can stand to hear the words "Big Dog!" over the course of 15 minutes...
10. Medical Facility
Over the course of a multi-decade career as a wrestling promotor - whether working within or beyond PG guidelines - Vince McMahon has presented storylines which have seen his talent body-slammed, pile-driven, bloodied, concussed, thrown off 40-foot scaffolds, incinerated, electrocuted, punctured by thumb tacks, smashed face-first with ladders, suplexed through glass, or otherwise broken in half.
None of these talents are taken to hospital.
They are taken to local medical facilities.
This is a peak McMahonism. It's difficult to get inside of the man's head - if a f*cking sneeze can't get itself in there, there's no way an armchair psychoanalyst can - but for a man with such a puerile sense of humour, with a taste for tasteless promotional tactics, he is oddly uptight. He famously loathed Mickie James' lewd gesture at WrestleMania 22, as well as an infamous promo in which Ric Flair bragged about making virgins bleed - so it's entirely possible that the word "hospital" brings into focus the dreaded "tawdry" elements of wrestling he pretends to loathe, but is the foremost practitioner of.