Vince McMahon retired from WWE in 2022 and ever since TKO took over WWE, his name is almost erased from the promotion. There had been a lot of allegations involved with his name lately, and despite being the biggest reason behind the ultimate success of WWE, he is one of the most hated figures in the wrestling world today.
One of the allegations that frequently goes with his name is burying talents on purpose. There are many examples where Vince McMahon buried some top talents who actually deserved to be on the main event or least upper mid card scene. One of the latter examples of it being Ethan Carter III who was totally buried by Vince despite being really talented.
WWE Hall of Famer Reflects on The Claim Vince McMahon Used to Bring in Talents to Bury Them
WWE Hall of Famer JBL recently talked about this allegation on Vince McMahon and shared a brief view on this topic. He also revealed if Vince made talents and commentators make look bad on purpose. Speaking on the “Something To Wrestle With” podcast recently, the former WWE Champion explained;
“You know, it’s the same with talent. You say ‘they always brought in talent just to bury them.’ Vince doesn’t bring in talent to bury people. Now, there may be some isolated cases. I don’t know that for sure because I can’t read his mind, but I was there for so much of it. And I was — again, when we went and did commentary with Vince back in the day before he put everything into production and creative rooms.
Vince McMahon had been in charge of WWE for more than four decades
“We got to sit there with Vince, and he would unveil everything in his mind — not everything. I’m sure he kept some stuff back in the bag, he’s bringing out later. But he would let us know his thoughts on talent about, ‘This talent’s going to get over. We got to do it this way.’ We had a long talk, which we can discuss later, about how how we dealt with The Ascension.
JBL continued, “I got all kinds of heat over that. But there was a plan for that, same as we had a plan for MVP. We had a plan for a lot of these different guys that we brought in about how we would address the commentary. And Vince doesn’t bring guys in to look dumb. It’s his product.
Vince McMahon announced his retirement in 2022
“Now, I don’t doubt there’s times he had a vendetta against somebody that was at a different company, and he brought them in just to bury him. Don’t blame him; I’d have done the same thing. I think basically any human being would. It’s human nature. But that didn’t happen. It didn’t happen like, ‘He wants guys to look stupid.’
“He wants the fans to feel like they’re part of the show. And to feel like you’re part of the show, sometimes the announcer does do stupid things. I would sit there and go, ‘Who is that?’ I know who it is. I can see him right in front of me, but I want the fan to come to that realization first, it’s part of being part of the show, instead of being a legit commentator. And there’s a huge difference.”
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Vince’s latter product was also getting boring and monotonous slowly and the fans were frustrated with the repetitive product. After Triple H took over the creative department of WWE, he has delivered a much better product than Vince McMahon delivered lately. Triple H is improving day after day and the fans are expecting to get even better in the future.
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