“He sounded like a frog,” Vince McMahon’s documentary makers reveal what the viewers missed after cutting 4 hours of footage

The documentary Vince McMahon committed to thinking it’d rinse his sins ended up digging his own grave on certain aspects. The doc that was released on Netflix a couple of days ago is a six-part series. It could’ve been ten, had it not been for McMahon’s hoarse cadence forcing the showmakers to trim almost four hours of his interviews.

Longtime wrestling journalist David Shoemaker, who had major inputs in the documentary, recently joined the show’s director Bill Simmons on his podcast. The two made a number of revelations, including what part of the doc ended up on the cutting room floor. It was a story featuring late stuntman Evel Kneivel, which, as stated above, didn’t make it on air.

They also confirmed that WWE wasn’t involved in the final cut of the series. Furthermore, in the last episode, a disclaimer read that the 79-year-old business magnate canceled his remaining interviews for the docuseries after the allegations levied by Janel Grant were made public. Mr. McMahon is currently under federal investigation carried out by the Dept. of Justice, putting Ms. Grant’s lawsuit on pause.

One of the major excerpts from the documentary saw Vince talk about allegedly rap*ng first-ever female WWE referee, Rita Chatterton. The latter accused McMahon of depraving advances during her tenure with WWE in the mid-1980s. To his defense, the former WWE Chairman said the r*pe never happened and everything was consensual.

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In December 2022, McMahon settled the lawsuit with Chatterton after paying her off an undisclosed amount of money. In previous diggings by the Wall Street Journal, the outlet unearthed $12 million in hush money that was paid to four women over the past 16 years by the ill-famed erstwhile WWE CEO. 

Backstage WWE reaction to the Vince McMahon documentary

In days prior to its release, Conrad Thompson, who’s son of WWE HOF’er Ric Flair, claimed that the documentary will be a double shovel burial of Vince McMahon. Moreover, he claimed that WWE wasn’t happy with the showmakers phasing out its involvement.

There were indeed some unhappy heads in WWE. Speaking of what the locker room thinks about Vince McMahon and the allegations that were imposed on him, Cody Rhodes had a perfect response.

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