10 Shocking Vince McMahon Moments You Totally Don't Remember

2. Vince Shows You What Blowing A Gasket REALLY Looks Like

Vince McMahon
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Vince McMahon has a certain tell when he's pissed off.

That's actually inaccurate. You can tell when Vince McMahon is pissed off because he often is, and the range of his animated face lets you know without question that he is, in fact, pissed off. He scowls. He glows. He screams. He becomes a caricature of anger when the red mist descends and blotches all over his bealing toddler face.

But Vince McMahon has a certain tell when he's particularly pissed off.

When Vince McMahon is particularly pissed off - so pissed off that he does well not to smash some poor c*nt right in the mush - he will mimic what they are doing, much like a literal child would. He did it to Bob Costas, by pretending to laugh alongside the interviewer, and he did it to Armen Keteyian also of HBO in 2003.

Questioned about his implication in the young wrestler death epidemic of that harrowing era, Vince latched onto and mimicked Keteyian's moralising tone and jutted out his bottom lip, as if Keteyian was being a big baby for caring about the prematurely deceased.

McMahon then forcibly removed Keteyian's notes from his hand in what was a very, very telling visual illustration of the conversation and indeed the man.

Faced with evidence, it was simply easier for McMahon to dismiss it out of hand.

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