10 Times Wrestlers Secretly LIED To The Locker Room
4. Vince McMahon
Ahead of Survivor Series 1997, on camera and off, Vince McMahon had to lie to everybody bar the handful of folk that knew that Bret Hart was about to be screwed in his final match with WWE.
Even some of those in the most precious inner circle spots weren't kept abreast, so mafia-like was the hit on 'The Hitman'. At the gorilla position, Bruce Prichard was left to manage the chaos without fully comprehending what had happened. Calling the contest at ringside, Jim Ross audibly struggles to parse what he's just seen in a manner that might make sense to a viewing audience. Even maligned referee Earl Hebner was only informed of his instruction as he was going out to the ring, in something that really sticks out as an act of particular callousness based on the the wages, the stars and the stakes at hand.
Without the biggest secrets and lies McMahon ever had to keep from even his closest confidants, none of it could have gone down the way it did. The line of b*llocks he came out with on Raw in the post-mortem several weeks later had nothing on the webs he elected to weave on one of his dirtier days.