10 Wrestling Answers Given YEARS Later
4. Why Vince McMahon Insisted On Calling Hospitals Local Medical Facilities
Many things have (thankfully) changed in the time since Triple H took over as WWE's head of creative, including the company's attitude towards certain terms used on-air.
Over the last few years, you've likely noticed that wrestlers and commentators have been throwing around the word "wrestler" and even calling that place said talents are often rushed off to a "hospital."
Unsurprisingly, the reason behind "superstars" and "local medical facility" often replacing those aforementioned names was because the volatile, one-time boss Vince McMahon preferred them. He felt his stars were so much more than simply "wrestlers" and that "superstars" just sounded better - but why did he make his employees utter the latter words?
Well, it took a few years, but it was eventually revealed by Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio in 2019 (via Still Real To Us) and JBL recently on Something To Wrestle (via Fightful) exactly why Vince didn't like "hospitals" being mentioned on TV.
In McMahon's strange mind, telling fans that a wrestler was at a specific hospital - "Baltimore hospital," for example - would open the door for those same people ringing up that place. He clearly felt they'd be desperate to learn more about how their favourite star was doing.
So, choosing to mostly use "local medical facility or center" would ensure the audience didn't have a clue where the wrestler had been sent, no matter that it was a consistently jarring term whenever it popped up on-screen.