Vince McMahon is known to change his mind quickly.
Multiple reports have been published over the years that have described McMahon changing TV plans last minute or stopping a Superstar’s push for bizarre reasons.
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WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley has recalled one of the times where McMahon scrapped a planned angle involving Foley’s long-time friend Terry Funk during the former WWE Champion’s 2006 feud with fellow Hall of Famer Edge.
Speaking on Foley is Pod, Foley revealed cancelled plans where Funk was going to be inducted into a very exclusive club, the Vince McMahon Kiss My Ass Club. However, due to Funk suffering a knee injury on his first appearance back with the company, McMahon instead chose to scrap the angle entirely:
“I thought Edge and I had done a really good job a couple months earlier and I really wanted this to be something special (‘Kiss My A** Club’ angle involving Terry Funk & Vince McMahon), and just to show you, I think you’re (podcast co-host) probably gonna talk to me about this, the first time that Terry came out and was on TV, to show that he had taken a chunk out of his bu**, where Terry came out, we had a little bit of a (dust-up) and his knee gave out on him on the ramp, and Vince saw that and wrote the whole angle off because he didn’t think Terry Funk could go anymore,”
Foley and Funk would get the opportunity to face off against one another one more time in an ECW ring as part of the 2006 One Night Stand pay-per-view. Foley would team with Edge and Lita to defeat the trio of Terry Funk, Tommy Dreamer and Beulah McGillicutty.
H/t to SportsKeeda for the use of transcriptions.