Episode 74 of the Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard podcast covered Survivor Series 2002. During this podcast, Bruce Prichard revealed the original idea behind the Katie Vick storyline, which is considered one of the worst in WWE history (for anyone confused, you can read a more detailed background on the storyline here).
Prichard revealed that the original plan for this storyline was to introduce Scott Vick to WWE. You might remember him as ‘Sick Boy’ in WCW.
Here is what Prichard said:
“You ever have those moments in your life where there are things that are so traumatic that you block them out entirely? (This) really and truly is one of them on so many different counts. The original idea behind Katie Vick was a way to introduce Scott Vick, who was a part of our developmental system. We were going to bring Scott in, and he was going to work with Kane or Triple H, I forget which at this point. Scott just had some really, really horrible dark matches at TV and on the road. When he got the nod to come up to the show, all of his matches from that point going forward just, the bottom fell out. Vince is like ‘What the hell are we doing?”
After Vince scrapped the plans for Scott, they ended up changing the storyline to Kane and the rest is history:
“So, he changed, and we had already teased the name Katie Vick. So it’s like ‘Ok, let’s change this and move it over to Kane. It can be his girlfriend.’ It was during a time that Vince was big into ‘We need more soap opera, we need more stories behind the characters.’ So we started creating stories and it came to the story of what if Kane accidentally, didn’t murder her, but was driving and, oh my god, then the drinking and it just grew. It’s another glowing example of ‘Don’t suggest or say things in jest that you don’t want to have show up on the show”
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