10 Most Insane Things That Ever Happened At WWE's Gorilla Position

1. Kota Ibushi High Fives Vince McMahon

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This might not have happened in the gorilla position, exactly, but it's just too amusing a story not to include in this list.

As we've learned, Vince McMahon isn't approachable. He's a scary, irate figure who operates in the shadows, grumbling his disinterest at whichever poor prick has to listen. In a new twist on this years-long practise, it has now become phenomenally difficult to understand what it is that Vince is actually saying. This situates the creative writer in an even scarier place.

Did he...he did he just endorse that idea, or...?

Did he think it was bad, and expect them to come up with an alternative solution? On a perverse level, it's rather amusing to imagine the hapless writer playing Russian Roulette, only the loaded chamber is a pitch putting together a match between Doudrop and Liv Morgan.

Kota Ibushi is similarly incoherent, so perhaps they're a great match. Ibushi certainly thought so; in 2016, moonlighting as a Cruiserweight, he, with no idea of who Vince McMahon even was, offered him a high five. WWE officials were apparently infuriated by this. How do you not know who the great Vince McMahon is?

Even Ibushi, not an especially clever man outside of the ring, was still savvy enough to know that WWE wasn't the best place in which to advance his career.

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