That Time Vince McMahon ACTUALLY Stopped Booking WWE
He tried at once to sell the plight of Shawn Michaels and reassure the audience that their hero wasn't on death's door, or anything: he had collapsed, but Hendrix reckoned he'd probably be OK later! As for Big Daddy Cool Diesel, he had lost his cool, he was that angry! The Undertaker, however, seemed to have taken the "worst of the brunt of the blows". This sounded serious.
"Quite frankly," said Hendrix, "it looks like the wind's been taken out of his sails!"
Not the wind!
They were OK, folks, and that big heat angle, resistant to an old Vince edict, was not allowed to register, to provoke dread and anguish, to mean anything.
What's stunning to consider is that, despite the very much substantiated notion that he books for an audience of one, Vince McMahon does actually want to put smiles on people's faces, irrespective of whether he is any good at it or not.
Watts harboured no ill will. He empathised with Vince's innate need for control, and left amicably. It was never something could let go, and that was for the best, as it turned out.
In a crazed sentence that is suitably pro wrestling, the WWF fared better three years on, through that control, with the man who would become the worst booker ever than they would have with the man once considered the best.