10 Most Insane Vince McMahon Lies WWE Fans Fell For

4. "I Can't Personally Be In The Weeds Any Longer"

This is what Vince McMahon told his shareholders during the Q2 investors call in 2019 in response to questions over the hiring of Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff as Executive Directors of Raw and SmackDown.

This news - which followed what was perhaps WWE's most critically dismal period ever - sparked the imagination of some optimistic fans. WWE was shockingly bad in that period, with the desperate Wildcard Rule (which was broken on night one) and the shoot brain worms idea to make countless matches two out of three falls. It ended there, however: Paul Heyman was going to bring the Extreme back to WWE, while Bischoff was going to bring back the glory days of WCW Nitro, as Vince finally "relinquished" creative control.

After one (1) half-interesting idea - Bobby Lashley and Braun Strowman broke the Raw stage as Corey Graves said "Holy sh*t" in place of a show-opening segment for a week - Raw was simply the exact same show beyond two separate "Will this pass for Attitude Era-adjacent controversy?" cuckolding storylines.

But who was going to join the rebooted nWo on Tuesday nights?!

Nobody.

Eric Bischoff, per insider accounts revealed by the Wrestling Observer's Bryan Alvarez, couldn't even be bothered to rehash his only storyline. Alvarez heard "zero good things" about Bischoff, who didn't opt to learn about the product nor the talent. The gossip is that he spent more time in catering than Mojo Rawley.

Bischoff for his part seemed to suggest that he was only ever a patsy, telling talkSPORT that "I was told clearly I wasn't brought in as a creative person," adding, tellingly, before his fellow Director's demotion that, "Whatever is going on is or not going on right now with Monday Night Raw has very little to do with Paul Heyman."

Neither were recruited to actually book the shows.

"I didn’t have that same clear understanding or picture of that role," Bischoff elaborated, all but confirming that he wasn't in the weeds, either. He didn't even know where he was meant to be.