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Vince McMahon's EXPLODING Limo | Unsolved Wrestling Mysteries

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🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Simon Miller is here to unpack the unsolved mystery of Vince McMahon and the exploding limousine...


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0:00.0

June 11th, 2007 is the night when Vince McMahon walked the backstage corridors of Raw, got mad

0:05.6

at Paul London, yelled at him and eventually released him from the company when he got into

0:09.8

his limousine and it exploded.

0:12.4

How many people when they do come to this story these days

0:14.6

are rightfully perplexed.

0:15.8

Like, wait a minute, they killed a character off on the Monday,

0:19.2

and then by Wednesday, he was just back again.

0:22.1

What the flub is going on. I mean that is a terrible

0:24.0

plan all things considered so it is an unsolved mystery. It does have a

0:28.0

horrible asterisk attached to it because around the same time we all found out

0:32.0

about the Chris Benoit murder suicide tragedy

0:34.8

and it was just the worst thing ever in wrestling.

0:37.0

But even WWE knew they couldn't keep this narrative up so on the next show Vince

0:40.6

Man did walk to the ring he explained the situation and as he

0:43.9

essentially said we never spoke about it again. The whole thing was

0:47.2

absolutely awful if you never watched again I don't blame you at all but trying to

0:50.8

get a positive spin out of this there was of course a plan in place, so I will try to decipher that as best as I can.

0:57.5

Now a huge reason W.W. we did decide to kick this out of the window is because the first skit was meant to be Vince McMahon's funeral.

1:03.7

I mean, can you actually imagine if they had gone ahead with this?

1:07.1

I would be one of them.

1:08.1

I would have quit watching too.

1:09.3

Even in 2007, McMahon was convinced he could get people talking though and he was absolutely right

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