Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley who is a former three times WWE World Champion recently talked about the retirement and return of Vince McMahon. He compared it with his own retirement and say that it was the second shortest retirement after his own.
Vince McMahon announced his retirement last year in June. He was working in the company for over 50 years and he was one of the biggest reasons behind the ultimate success of WWE. When he started working in the promotion, it was just another professional wrestling promotion.
Mick Foley Discusses The Return Of Vince McMahon
It was under his rule that the promotion became the best professional wrestling promotion in the entire world. So it had been pretty heart breaking for a lot of fans to see him stepping down from his role. But most of the fans were really happy about it since his latter product was getting really monotonous and boring. Most of the fans where really frustrated with the repetitive product.
After he announced his retirement, his daughter Stephanie McMahon became the CO CEO of the company, and his son in law Triple H became the Head of Creative of WWE and he delivered and excellent product which most of the fans really loved. Recently McMahon announced his return to the company which was pretty shocking that he decided to return in such a short period of time.
Mick Foley who is a former three times WWE World Champion recently spoke on his Foley Is Pod show where he talked about the retirement and return of Vince McMahon. He compared it with his own retirement and say that it was the second shortest retirement after his own. He said;
“It’s the second-shortest retirement in WWE history [laughs], following only mine, which lasted for six weeks. Hey, look, I know JR had told me years ago that he was worried for Vince in retirement because it’s safe to say that JR is a workaholic. There is a negative connotation because you apply so much of yourself to working.
“But even JR, he’s got the Oklahoma football, he has stuff that he loves in his life. I don’t think Vince, Vince loves his family unconditionally, but I’m talking about hobbies. There no golfing, none of the things that you usually associate with men of his age. No scrap-booking for Vince. No birdwatching.
“Business was very, very personal, like his life revolved and his family revolved, around the business. So that was one of my concerns. What is he doing to do? He loves working. I don’t imagine him not being there in that Gorilla Position. It would seem like something was amiss if he wasn’t there.”
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