Former WWE writer reveals what was planned for Vince's limo explosion angle

[Big Hoss Rambler]

Former WWE writer reveals what was planned for Vince's limo explosion angle 5 yrs. ago

Vince McMahon is returning to WWE Raw this coming Monday, and today on the PWTorch Livecast a former WWE Creative Team member Chris DeJoseph explains what it's like behind the scenes when Vince McMahon decides to appear on TV after an absence.

So what was the plan five years ago when Vince McMahon's limousine exploded, apparently with him inside of it, dying a fiery death - a storyline dropped abruptly after the real-life death of Chris Benoit and his family via murder-suicide.

"I think we were excited about it," says DeJoseph. "It was kind of a directive from the network in a way to try to create a huge story arc of - I think at the time everybody was into Whodunit? Okay, we are given the task of coming up with a Whodunit? We sat around that room enough hours and days and finally came up with: We're going to blow up Vince. We had a pretty long-term storyline. I don't know if we have a complete, defined finish of who it was or why it was done. I think that was going to be an evolving process. We couldn't necessarily get an answer out of the boss. Sometimes that's a little difficult. Even if you did get a definitive answer it would probably change anyway."

Was the idea to sell the idea he would have died inside the explosion? "Yes, I think the idea was for Vince to just be missing and his body is burned beyond recognition, he is gone, something like that, I think.
The idea was to say he was actually dead."

And where would the storyline go from there? What was the point of it all? Says DeJoseph: "I think it was going to be a scramble for power in the company. That was really the idea behind it. Now that he was gone, everybody was fighting for power and everybody has different motives. What were some of those motives to get the power?"

That was one example of a storyline being dropped before it was resolved, but that was a special circumstance due to the awful Benoit family situation.

For the full interview that also talks about Vince McMahon's disregard storyline inconsistencies, go here.

 

[Donald Trump_]

He had to come back from his fake death when Chris Benoit died.

 

[Farooq]

It would have been fun and cool. But I'm glad he did the respectful thing and came out and revealed himself and used the 3 hours for Benoit instead of something stupid like doing the three hours and having the tribute on ECW the next night.

 

[Lockard 23]

What's funny if the forced ending is what I had predicted even before the Benoit tragedy - that Vince faked his death just to make people miss him or realize they may need him in some capacity to run the company or something along those lines. I think that's what they would have eventually went with anyway since there's no way Vince was gonna stay off TV forever, and this seemed like a pretty big thing to ignore in the future when they did bring him back.

 

[Matt]

I would like to have seen this storyline :upset:

 

[Leo C]

I would've liked to see it, could've been interesting. But about bringing him back to TV after being killed... Paul Bearer. :dawg:

 

[Rysenberg]

Was it not this one that they planned Kennedy to be a part of? Or was that the illegitimate son one that turned out to be Hornswoggle :facepalm1:

 

[William]

This sounded like it would have been a really cool storyline! Shame it had to end though because of the Benoit tragedy

 

[Matt]

Was it not this one that they planned Kennedy to be a part of? Or was that the illegitimate son one that turned out to be Hornswoggle :facepalm1:

yeah the illegitimate son.. didnt kennedy get fired for almost injuring orton?