WWE official Bruce Prichard recently took to his podcast, “Something To Wrestle,” to talk about several professional wrestling topics.
Here are the highlights:
How Vickie Guerrero ended up on WWE TV:
Vickie and I sat in Phoenix, Arizona in what was known as the TV office room. And we were talking, this was the first TV we were in Phoenix after Eddie’s passing, and it had been a while. Vickie came down to say hello, and just be around the business. And we started joking about ‘What if?’
You know, ‘Oh my god, could you see Vickie coming back, and could you see her managing Rey only to turn on him. And just, this whole crazy — things you would never do. And as we’re talking, I said, ‘Lemme ask you a question, would you actually do that? I mean, we’re laughing about it, but it sounds really good. Would you actually do that?’ She said, ‘Hell yeah!’
Pitching the idea to Vince McMahon:
Vince’s office was right around the corner. There was two hallways, and he was going down the back hallway, I think to go to catering or something. And I grabbed him and said, ‘Hey, come here. I want to throw something at you.’ He saw Vickie and they hugged, and just started reminiscing. I said, ‘We talked about some crazy s**t in here just a minute ago.
I just wanted to throw this out at you, because I think it would be good.’ And we threw out the idea of using her as a character, as a heel character. And we just got to talking about crazy scenarios. ‘Oh my god, what if you fell in love with someone,’ and all this other crap. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Because she embraced it, it was — I don’t know if in the beginning it was a, ‘Well, you know, here’s the widow of Eddie Guerrero, let’s do something for her.’ There may have been a tinge of that in there, but man she delivered. God, she delivered.
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H/T 411Mania for the transcriptions
