5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2021

2. Vince Has Lost His Marbles

Vince McMahon Roman Reigns
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One thing that tends to save WWE PPVs this day is that it’s short on godawful backstage segments and focuses on in-ring action, which is usually passable to really good.

But on Sunday night, we were “treated” to a backstage segment that might have exposed just how insane Vince McMahon really is. It was a bit tough to hear Vince’s raspy voice, but he welcomed Roman Reigns into his office to show him “Cleopatra’s egg.”

McMahon said that The Rock gave it to him as a gift, and made sure to stress that it wasn’t a movie prop (from Rock’s latest movie “Red Notice”), but it was indeed the real thing – just look at the jewels! – and was valued at more than $100 million. (Roman had a nice line saying that that would be as much as his next contract.)

What in the hell is going on here? Are we supposed to think Vince is so senile and stupid that he believes that this movie prop is a real artefact? That he’s been duped by Rocky? Or is he trying to pull a fast one on the wrestlers and convince them this thing is the real deal?

Either way, this is just insanely stupid.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.