Long-time WWE Director Kerwin Silfies recently appeared on The Steve Austin Show – Unleashed to discuss why Vince McMahon stopped doing commentary and the angle from RAW in 2007 where Vince McMahon got blown up in a limo. Here are the highlights.
On why Vince McMahon stopped doing commentary:
“He [has] got an amazing, amazing mind if you ask me.” Silfies continued, “I think he stopped [commentating] because he was frustrated having to sit there [at the commentary desk] and not be able to control other aspects of the show because he had to be doing the commentary and he could make do with someone else doing the commentary easier than he could sit there and watch everybody else, myself included, screw things up because he wasn’t able to help.”
On the angle from RAW in 2007 where Vince McMahon got blown up in a limo:
“I was very proud of it and it was when we blew up Vince in the limo because it took a lot of work to set that up and there was all kinds of speculation about how we did it and how it was ‘Vince got out the other side of the car’ and ‘there was a fake leg that came out’ and all kinds of stuff that was just baloney. But we’re not Hollywood. We’re the WWE and we do a lot of things really, really well, but we’re not Hollywood and we didn’t have a five million dollar budget for that stunt and it came out perfect.” Silfies added, “people in the arena calling EMTs saying that Vince just got blown up in the parking lot. Now, that’s crazy! That’s just flat out crazy, but it was that good.”
You can listen to the entire podcast here:
