The One WWE Gimmick That Was Too Offensive Even For Vince McMahon

Madigan believed the whole thing was a masterstroke. He was delighted to present Baron Von Bava to WWE's creative team (including Vince McMahon), telling Power Slam: "I thought these were good ideas. Inside my mind, it worked out well."

He felt empowered by the controversial Katie Vick angle from 2002. If Triple H simulating necrophilia was on the table, surely anything was? Right? Right?!

Well, no. As Madigan got up from his chair and goose-stepped around the room to mimic Von Bava, he noted that nobody was as shocked as Vince McMahon. The WWE Chairman was speechless for perhaps the first time in his lengthy career. All he could do there was sit with the rest of his writers in stunning silence before finally standing up, collecting his jacket, and walking out of the room, disappearing for the rest of the day.

"That's a first," Dan quipped to fellow writer Ed Koskey.

It shouldn't come as a huge surprise to learn that Madigan was gone from the company that November, though he did pen the Kane-led 2006 horror flick See No Evil for WWE Studios. Regardless, Baron Von Bava was probably his deathknell, as one of his colleagues noted his card was marked from that moment onwards.

In fairness to Madigan, it wasn't like Vince didn't have prior when it came to signing off on the crude and offensive...

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