During a recent interview, Renee Paquette (Renee Young in WWE) recalled a time she mistakenly did not refer to Tyson Fury as the Lineal Champion, and thus received a serious verbal attack from Vince McMahon.
Speaking to Ariel Helwani, Paquette had this to say:
“I wasn’t on commentary for this moment, it was after I had done commentary, and I was doing a panel… Anyways, we were doing a panel show where they cut us in between the show, it was some kind of special. But anyways, um, Tyson Fury was on the show, it was when he was doing his stint in WWE, and it was me Samoa Joe, Booker T, and Beth Phoenix, I believe that’s what the cast was for that crew. And I had said I was throwing to a package blah blah blah, something something “The Gypsy King” Tyson Fury throw to package. And he’s [Vince McMahon] in my ear, and he goes, Â ‘You f*cking ruined it!’, screaming at me, telling me that I’ve ruined this segment because I did not refer to Tyson Fury as the lineal champion, that I referred to him as “The Gypsy King” Tyson Fury throw to the package, so he’s screaming at me. And at this point, like, at this point I am like over it, I’ve done the commentary thing I’m just like I’m a little bit hardened to all the circumstances. So he’s yelling at me about this and I’m looking down at my notes, maybe I’m looking to Samoa Joe taking in this information in my ear, but he thinks I’m ignoring him. So he yells at me again, ‘do you hear me? Acknowledge that you hear me!’, and he wanted me to like look into the camera and be like, ‘yes sir, I hear you, I understand you, I apologize.'”
“But yeah, I mean it just to be yelled at like that for a small… I don’t want to say mistake, it’s not a mistake, I just didn’t call him the lineal champion. I didn’t know that it was that necessary, as if I had ruined the run of Tyson fury in WWE by not calling him that. I mean to be yelled at like that in front of your like peers was pretty demoralizing, to yeah just be yelled out that I ruined the segment. I felt bad about it and then we had to come back and do an on-cam after that and I was just like, I wanted to pull off my headset and just literally get my car and drive home. Because at that point, I had just had it.”
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You can listen to Ariel Helwani’s full interview with Renee Paquette below:
