10 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets Revealed By Former WWE Writers

5. No Eating...Unless You're A McMahon

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One of several little quirks that started leaking out in the era of exasperated writers having alarmingly short stints with WWE, this torturous experience emerged when ex-writer Dominic Cotter spilled the beans about his time under Vince McMahon's thumb.

Talking through the wretched he working day, he casually noted that;

“Vince would always eat in front of us during the meetings…(He had) some sort of beef wrap with ketchup…The meetings usually ran the entire day without food.”

There's been countless tales of McMahon's insane work ethic and how he expects the exact same of his staff, but at least The Chairman's impossible engine is fuelled by eating when he wants to. What's the point in keeping to meal times when you've got the gym at 1am, are in bed at 2 and back up at 3, after all?

These are not the actions of a normal human being regardless of the company's public attempts to normalise it, but then it could be argued that neither is becoming a writer for WWE. Not after stories such as this, or...

 
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