12 Things We Learned From Jim Ross: Under The Black Hat

9. Vince McMahon Uses Cutlery To Eat Sandwiches

Jim Ross Under the Black Hat
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While Luke Harper's Exalted One persona has been taking subtle shots at Vince McMahon on AEW Dynamite in recent weeks, the wrestling world has heard so many stories about Vince's, well, Vince-isms over the years.

Many a wrestling fan have heard a former talent or executive talk about McMahon's hatred of sneezes, his daily meal of steak, or the fact that you don't have a snowball in hell's chance of getting an idea approved should Vince be hungry. But in Under the Black Hat, Jim Ross goes on to detail how one such Vince-ism involves him using a knife and fork to eat sandwiches.

To anybody else, that notion sounds utterly insane, yet McMahon and his germaphobia means that the WWE Chairman is completely against using his hands for such breaded delight. In fact, Ross goes on to make mention of Vinny Mac's unique way of eating a pizza.

Imagine the scene. It's been a long day at Titan Towers. Vince McMahon likely hasn't slept for three days, yet he's still managed to cram in six workouts and hired and fired Bruce Prichard two times over. At such times, Vince occasionally will have a pizza delivered.

As Jim writes, "Vince would fold a slice and eat it up to where he touched it, then bin the rest. It was my daily challenge at WWE to ignore this while sitting across from him."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, most certainly sounds like quite the unique daily challenge.

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