However…when it turns personal with Vince McMahon, then it becomes an issue. And Easy E made it real personal, real fast.
Look, you don’t ever challenge Vince McMahon, especially when it comes to a fight. Going all the way back to his early days, Vince was forced to overcome much adversity in his life. And throughout his checkered adolescent past, he did whatever he had to do as a child and a teen just in order to survive. Vince is a fighter above all – it’s just in the McMahon blood.
And it was that same blood that boiled to the surface when Eric Bischoff challenged Vince McMahon to show up at his pay-per-view and fight him.
Regardless of the fact that Eric and WCW would have greatly benefited from this publicity stunt, because it was a WCW pay-per-view, the business of it didn’t even cross Vince’s mind at the time. As a man, he was challenged, and his instinct was to answer the call. Vince was dead-set om showing up and fighting Eric. Trust me – the boss was serious. I could hear it in his words and I could see it in his eyes – he wasn’t kidding.
However, there was one small problem – the pay-per-view landed on the exact same day that Stephanie was graduating from Boston University. After some deliberation, Vince made the right decision and went to his beloved daughter’s ceremony.
Looking back, there is NO QUESTION in my mind that Vince McMahon would have showed up to fight Eric Bischoff at that pay-per-view, had it been on any other day. What would have happened is anybody’s guess, but I guarantee you this – that day in wrestling history would have been talked about even more then David Arquette becoming the WCW World Champion.
I think.
