10 Craziest Things Vince McMahon Has Ever Said To Wrestlers

2. Tiger Ali Singh Gets Treated Despicably

VINCE RICK RUDE
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Now-deceased comedian and former WWE writer Patrice O'Neal, speaking to Opie & Anthony in 2005, revealed a quite astonishing verbal exchange shared between Vince McMahon and the inexplicable triumvirate of Tiger Ali Singh, D'Lo Brown and Chaz.

This "stable" existed for one incredibly basic reason: the only thing funnier than one man wearing a silly hat is three men wearing silly hats - especially if two of these people wouldn't ordinarily wear a silly hat. That's double silly!

Except it wasn't a silly hat, but rather a turban rightfully considered by Attitude Era also-ran Tiger Ali Singh as a sacred symbol of his religion. Singh, whose disgust towards WWE intensified into a lawsuit in which he claimed he was racially abused, was apoplectic at the pitch. Vince was having none of it, but he at least didn't outright say it was a silly hat, come on.

He said it was a "stupid turban".

"Shut up and put on the turban," he instructed. "Get out there with the stupid turban."

Singh tried once more to appeal to a side of Vince's that simply did not exist, urging him to see it as a "desecration".

"You and D'Lo are gonna put on those f*cking turbans and I don't give a sh*t about desecration," he replied.

He wasn't urging Singh to "stand up for himself".

He thought sacred religious headwear was stupid.

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