10 Wrestling Secrets Hiding In Plain Sight
1. Vince McMahon's Temper
Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler were, of course, the perfect double act: the pearl-clutching moral compass and the pearl necklace-pouring commentary team of the WWF's white-hot Attitude Era. The presentation was so authentic, and free-flowing, that any headset regulation served its actual purpose as a hidden practise designed to accentuate - and not detract from - the commentary.
Jim Ross was always very quick to correct himself when he confused Matt and Jeff Hardy, which was every f*cking time, so we never suspected that Vince McMahon was sat, in gorilla, foaming at the mouth, ready to pounce on any error. This is bizarre, incidentally; on two separate occasions, as company owner and producer, the most obvious man to have ever lived concealed his roles from the audience.
And everybody calls him an idiot.
As the years passed by, tales of ear-splitting verbal abuse surfaced, most infamously through Mick Foley's decision to quit in fury. Now, whenever dead air fills the broadcast, we know that Vince McMahon is blowing an absolute gasket. His temper bleeds through the headset like a ninja assassin, and now, it is as if his entire form travels through the cables, like Dale Cooper in The Return.
We have reached a point by which we can only conflate Michael Cole with Vince McMahon. We barely see him beyond inserts, and he still looks more like a puppet now than he did back in 1997, when Triple H had his hand plunged ten inches up his a*se.