Todd Grisham has shared a terrifying story about a time Vince McMahon confronted him backstage over a misunderstanding in the company gym. The former WWE broadcaster described the incident as the maddest he ever seen the former WWE Chairman.
Grisham explained that shortly after being hired, he had a pleasant interaction with McMahon at the gym. However, the following Monday, McMahon approached him backstage with a very different demeanor, believing Grisham had failed to re-rack his weights.
“He starts walking a little closer, and he’s like, ‘I saw you going into the weight room the other day.’ I said, Yes, sir,” Grisham recalled. “He goes, ‘You were lifting those weights, weren’t you?’ I said, Yeah. He goes, ‘You put the weights on the bar, right?’ I said, Yeah. He goes, ‘But you forgot to take them off.’ I said, Oh. He goes, ‘No, no, no, it’s okay. It’s okay. I did it for you, which [yells] makes me your f*cking boy!’ He’s like, this close to my face, screaming, I’ve only been there three months. Everyone’s like, backing up. I feel like I’m pissing my pants at this point, he’s turning beet red, and then he just stops and just walks away.”
Grisham later found out from producer John “Big” Gaburick that McMahon had been planning the confrontation for days, even though Grisham was not the person who left the weights on the bar.
“He would later tell me that he was in the gym. It wasn’t me, by the way, that left the weights on, there was someone else, but he just thought it was me,” Grisham said. “And he said that Vince thought about how to how to approach me about that all weekend. [Vince said] ‘I can’t call him the N word. I’m not his N word. What can I call him? I’ll call him boy, yeah, okay.’ He planned it. He looks psychotic. That’s the maddest he’s been. But to be fair, later that night, I did the show, walked backstage, and he gave me the nod, he’s on to the next subject. Almost, I felt like, you know, every once in a while, the mafia boss himself has to kill somebody just to be like, Oh, he’s capable. I was the guinea pig. Do not do anything to piss this man off.”
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