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Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

INTERVIEW CLASSIC: Ex-WWE Creative Team member Dan Madigan talks WrestleMania 20 booking, backstage quirks of Vince, the crazy burrito story

Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast

Wade Keller

Leisure, Sports, Tv & Film

3.8903 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Summary

This week's Interview Classic episode from ten years ago (7-26-2013) features Dan Madigan, a former WWE Creative Team member in 2004 and 2005 who was around for WrestleMania 20. He talks about his first time meeting Vince McMahon, odd McMahon quirks, the crazy Vince "burrito story," what Triple H's interpersonal skills were like, how Vince reacted to his pitch for a Nazi character for John Heidenreich, the process of writing "See No Evil" for WWE Films, what he thinks WWE did wrong in their approach to entering the movie industry and what Vince said his goal was initially, thoughts on the Goldberg vs. Brock Lesnar debacle at WM20, backstage impressions of John Cena, Undertaker, JBL, and Randy Orton, and much more. He also talks about a Kickstarter project based around a graphic novel series starring Ultimo Dragon.

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All right.

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But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

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