Former WWE writer Brian Gewirtz was a guest on E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness. Gewirtz worked closely with some of the top stars in WWE history like the Rock, Edge, Christian, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and more during his time with the company. Gewirtz shared the segment that Vince McMahon called the worst thing that the company ever recorded.
The segment was from the Edge & John Cena feud. Edge & Lita visited John Cena’s childhood home where they ended up arguing with Cena’s dad. Gewirtz and Bruce Prichard were producing the segment.
Cena’s dad was apparently so over the top in his part of the segment that they couldn’t use the footage. It did eventually air but Edge had to dub over the audio because it was so bad.
Here is the story from Gewirtz:
So [Edge] and [Lita], we went to the Cena house, yeah, and the idea was [Edge] would go in, make fun of his upbringing, make fun of his house, and eventually get into it with his dad and everything. But what we didn’t know was Mr. Cena is a bit of a performance artist in his own right. Yes, so and the line was just ‘Edge berates John Cena’s dad and storms off,’ so then, [Edge] would berate him, and he goes, ‘well, let me tell you something, I’m going to put you over the edge!’ And then, he looks into the camera. We’re like, ‘what the f–k? What? Hey, Mr. Cena, in this particular set of circumstances, you are just going to stand there and kind of get berated. We’re going to get sympathy for you and your character and everything.’ [Imitating Cena, Sr.] ‘Oh, got it. Okay.’ So then, [Lita] cuts her promo and it’s like, ‘let me tell you something chicky-poo, you’re nothing! And I’m going to make sure you’re both put over the edge!’ He kept going back to that for some reason. He was doubling down on the ‘over the edge’ and [Edge] had to do [his] best to stop from laughing at everything. [Imitating Cena, Sr.] ‘I don’t care if you do it till the cows come home! Hahaha! See, because that’s how it works around here in West Newbury, Massachusetts!’ I’m like, ‘what is happening?’ He couldn’t help himself and Cena warned us about it.”
Vince McMahon later said that the footage might have been the worst thing they ever recorded:
“Then we get the call from Vince [McMahon], Bruce and I, and he goes, ‘guys, that might have been the worst thing we ever recorded in the history of this business. I’m extremely disappointed.’ And then, Vince said the greatest thing in the world, which I should apologize to Bruce, but I can’t. But he goes, ‘it’s unusable, it was unprofessional, it was terrible – Bruce, I’m really disappointed in you.’ And I’m just like, ‘yes, I agree with that! Bruce, I am, too, disappointed. I was trying to learn from you!’”
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