During an appearance on Busted Open Radio last week, AEW star Brodie Lee was asked whether his character is a spoof of WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon. Here is what he had to say:
“Look, you take them however you want,” Lee said. “I’m happen to be a fan of mafia movies, so that’s the way the character is portrayed for me. I believe the leadership style, the results speak for themselves. So, you can take it anyway you want.
“Trust me, I hear you. I hear everybody. None of that is intentional. I have no reason to hate WWE, no reason to hate Vince McMahon, nothing like that. You take it how you want.”
“People want to tell me how upset I was,” Lee said. “They love telling me, ‘Oh, you were so upset with WWE. They mistreated you.’ No they didn’t, man. I wasn’t upset. I just wanted to wrestle. I’m a professional wrestler and I wanted to wrestle while I still had the opportunity. I’m not going to be able to do this forever, so I needed to do it while I still can. I knew I was good at it, I knew I was great at it. So f–k it, let’s do it.
“At the end of the day, I was the one that had to look at the mirror at myself. So if I didn’t take advantage of this opportunity, if I didn’t say f–k it, then I’m the one when I’m 70 years old I’m going to look in the mirror and regret something. I refuse to do that.”