Sound Off Extra - Stone Cold Podcast With Vince McMahon 

I liked how he blamed the wrestlers for not getting themselves over. Like they have control!!

I think a cool thing to put on the network could be the unedited interviews that the wrestlers and backstage guys do for all the DVD's they release. An example would be them uploading the full Eric Bishoff Interview where he has the 2002 Raw set in the background. WWE have hundreds of these interviews in their vault.

"The territories screwed the territories." XD

Saying that the current roster is "frankly, not as ambitious as it was in the attitude era" was an extremely BOLD thing for Vince to say. Many will disagree with that statement, but externally it does seem to be the truth. Most people are happy to be on T.V. and they will do whatever they're told to, however humiliating and degrading it might be.

As far as Cesaro goes, somebody should have put "The Transporter " gimmick on him and let him run wild. A suit, Black BMW, and some burned rubber would have been huge for him. The fact that he is much stronger than guys at least 75 to 100 pounds heavier than him is huge. A rivalry between him and Brock would have been awesome because some that is smaller than Lesnar and probably could over power and out wrestle him. WWE is failing big time with this guy

Solomon you are on FIRE, you have done so much the last week, thanks for another sound off!

Keep up the good work Solomonster! 👍 love your podcast

its funny how Vince says that Cesaro has no charisma or he hasnt devloped his mic skills just becos hes Swiss really? but they will back a person like roman reigns where is mic skills are FAR worse then Cesaro last tyme i checked Cesaro speaks multiple languages and his size & strength is pretty much what the WWE champion looks 4 but they naever gave him a chance vince is blatant racist

Couldn't believe Vince buried his locker room like that.

"Exactly what they need to bring in more subscribers." WWE promptly removes the SC podcast & Legends with JBL.

If these guys have no ambition then why the fuck did you hire them?

When Solomonster talked about Triple H being the Executive Vice President of Talent etc, I couldn't help but hear it in John Laurnitis voice (not sure if I spelt it right.)

Anyone here think that Vince is just as delusional, if not more, than Dixie Carter?

25:25-25:30.; What did The Solomonster mean by "I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'm selling on Craigslist."?

I know I'm a little late to this one, but something was said here that really caught me. According to what was said about Vince and Punk working together again, Vince said there wasn't anyone who could bring Punk back to the table to get them to talk. Austin was brought back to the table by Jim Ross. So why not Paul Heyman for Punk? I have no idea what the relationship is between punk and Heyman now, and I know Heyman is with Brock doing the Goldberg story line, but couldn't he call Punk and set up a meeting with Vince. Punk even said that Triple H called him and wanted to talk and Punk said that he was willing to talk with him after he got back from his honeymoon. I think that shows that maybe Punk would be willing to work things out if a good mediator was in play, and I think that would be Heyman.

6 years ago anniversary!

In my opinion, this showed & proved how out of touch Vince McMahon really is... Then, again, I'm not too surprised.

Great insight as always Solomonster. Great video.

EXACTLYYY this is why solomonster is legend. like his response on the cena stuff too

Vince can't be that damn out of touch. Then again I'm not too surprised.

CM Punk: APOLOGIZE, VINCE! Vince Mcmahon: I APOLOGIZE, YOU SON OF A BITCH!

I think Vince purposely wanted to take a shot at the current roster to hopefully ignite a positive response.

CESARO IN 2021... Wow Vince, WWE, SMFH!

Wow another sound off? You're on fire! Love the show.

What are you talking about Solomonster? Mad TV was funny

Sorry Vince, but I'm a WRESTLING fan.

Great video

Brock Lesnar not appearing on tv as often as fans want him to, especially as champion, isn't only because of contractual negotiations previously made, but McMahon explained that it also had to do with overexposure, which I think played a large role in negotiations into how many appearances they wanted him for. And he referenced Jake the Snake with his python coming out to the ring being less special than it was initially. It's a point that I agree with. Could they do a few vignettes and spread them out throughout the year to keep Brock relevant and people satisfied/entertained? Definitely. You do have a point. Like you mentioned, there are a lot of people bitching about Brock not being on tv enough, especially as champion and it's an argument that I also agree with Vince on. And to me, this is partly why people don't care about the talent/roster. They have guys on every week, sometimes more than once a week, and it loses its appeal. They should cut down their pay-per views from 12-13 down to 6 and instead of throwing a ppv every month, you'd have about a month and a half to two months to build up a fight. The way they have it now, in a few of these ppvs, they have even less than a month to build a storyline to a fight. It becomes forced, and guys are then obligated to show up every week to sell the ppv and it overexposes the talent.

vince is out of touch, FINISH IT.

I agree 100% with solomonster on every point he has made in his last two videos. This guy has such a knowledge for pro wrestling to the point where I wouldn't mind him working for the company itself. Nothing but story lines the fans want to see

Thank you vince for giving me the final reason I needed to never and I do mean never again buy the wwe network again even for a non commitment subscription.

The whole thing with savage was when he left to WCW he took the Slim Jim contract WWF had at the time with him. That pissed Vince off to no end. Lanny Poffo confirmed this in a interview on youtube. You can look it up yourself. As for the Hall of fame thing also said by Lanny was Macho Man wanted the whole Poffo Family in the HOF. Since he saw that done with the Von Erics. I guess Vince didn't want to do it.

I am sick to fucking death of Lesnar vs Cena. *thumbs up*

I really do want to shoot "Beverly's hunting Brock" vignettes.

I'm sorry I've only just this video and your channel. I remember seeing Cesaro back in 2006ish at a very small indie show in England and having a discussion with a friend of mine and saying that he is going to make it in WWE. I totally agree that it seems like Vince Mcmahon screwed up on him big time. He will never be a main event guy now. Unless he goes somewhere else.

30:15-30:46.; I didn't want The Undertaker's steak to end & I didn't think that it was ever gonna end, but, after it did, I was as shocked as everybody else. Doug from rvdtito4life, on the other hand said in one of his RU-vid videos afterwards something like "The Undertaker's undefeated streak ending was long over-due & if The Undertaker were to have won against a legitimate bad-ass like Brock Lesnar, it wouldn't have been believable."... I was hoping that The Undertaker would've gone into the WWE Hall-Of-Fame as the first wrestler in history to have had a undefeated streak at 'WrestleMania', but, there's not much more that you can do about that, now, is there?...

yess

I listen to The Solomonster and Don Tony and Kevin Show for 3-4 years combined mostly DT&KC BUT WATCHING YOUR RU-vid I HAVE SAID FOR YEARS I BELIEVE THE ANONYMOUS RAW GM YEARS AGO WAS RANDY SAVAGE HES BIG RETURN RUNNING THINGS LIKE MANIC IT WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT I HAVE THOUGHT THIS FOR YEARS THEN UNFORTUNATELY AFTER THE MADNESS PASSED AWAY THEY GAVE IT TO FUCKING HORNSWAGGLE to just end it. Randy savage agent said at THe time the year he died he had a big year coming RIP RANDY SAVAGE SORRY FOR NO PUNCTUATIONS

I could have sworn that Vince once called Undertaker by his real name once when they were doing the angle with Vince and Undertaker when he was going after Steph. I seem to remember either Vince or Steph called him Mark during a segment on RAW but I could be wrong. Point being I don't THINK this was the first time he called Undertaker by his name before

I would love a roundtable with Solomonster Sounds Off ***** OTRSCentral Bruce Blitz

the moment vince made the swizz comment i was like damn... well there goes anyone thats not white american ever being the face of the company

I'm pretty sure the reason why VKM got an army of writers instead of doing what they used to would have to do with the WWE being a publicly-traded company. I could imagine the amount of credibility and persuasiveness that is required of Vince to answer to the stakeholders, and sometimes big companies like the WWE would required fancy stuff like "writers from Hollywood, blah blah" to get these shallow stakeholders on board.

25:10 An 800 lb elephant is pretty small...perhaps you meant "gorilla", Solomonster?

am on the network for the old stuff!!! and NXT of course.

Sad that someone that has so much skill as Dolph Ziggler doesn't get a mention. I would have loved to have seen a Ziggler / Michaels feud. Epic matches every night.

Hey Solomonster Triple H was mentioned by Vince once during the podcast he called him paul

It was cool to find out we were born the same year, it's nice to listen to a reviewer who has a similar timeline as it were. The Rock N' Wrestling angle, the Jimmy Snuka Piper's Pit coconut segment etc...Jake Robert's cobra drawing blood from Macho Man's bicep and refusing to let go. I grew up in LI as well and briefly attended Hofstra. We could've been hangin! CAAABLE GUUUUY!! :)

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

"That person doesn't exist? Oh wait except Stephanie, Triple H & I are all really close to his close friend Joey Mercury but meh anyway...."

That one part where Vince said that the WWE has over 30 writers now. Austin should've fired back and asked 'how many of those writers know about professional wrestling and how it works' almost immediately. Doesn't anyone else agree? As for Solo's comments on Cena, yes. I agree with him. People want him gone, yet they still keep talking about him every chance they get. How much sense does that make?

I was born 1979 so I not a lazy ass woohooooo

There's two sides to every story. The honest side... and then there's the bullshite political spin of a man who is out of touch with the times, his wrestlers, and his audience, trying to repair the broken reputation of his petty company. Vince's comments about Cesaro say it all. It's so obvious Cesaro would have been over as a babyface wtih the Cesaro Swing. Vince and the WWE get it wrong so often. From Fang McFrost to babyface Batista coming back to headline Wrestlemania while Daniel Bryan wrestles Sheamus on the mid-card. Thank you CM Punk, for everything. You would think the future of the WWE would be bright with Zayn, KENTA, Steen, and Devitt, but I have no faith that Vince and the WWE will know what to do with them. Take a risk, get yourself over, go for that brass ring, but don't piss anyone off. Who knows, you could become the next Zack Ryder.

Awesome. 6 videos a week. I like!

If what WWE does is not wrestling then why is the company named World Wrestling Entertainment? Why not call it World Sports Entertainment

I love the idea of multiple podcasts like this over the year. Stagger them around, so you have a big ppv, a NXT special and a podcast interview per quarter, so every month there's something must watch on the network. Not that I have the network, being in the UK, but that's a different gripe.

I always thought the Attitude era was kinda overrated af

Some of you people should go back and watch Raw episodes from the Attitude Era because outside Austin, Rock, Undertaker and DX, the entire roster was garbage in the ring. If that roster was given PG era scripts to read, the shows would be infinitely worse than they are today. As hard as that may be to believe...

Why in the Fuck dose NO ONE absolutely No one bring up that video that Randy posted up around 2002 - 2004 where he says something like "hay hunter im gonna slap you up and take your bitch" I.E. Stephanie McMahon and he said some other shit about her and triple h too its like everyone forgot about that or just passes that by

Cool review Jason

I never took those Savage/Stephanie underage sex rumours as meaning when she was a child, surely people mean before she was 18 and thus legal. She would have been 18 the same year he left (and note that it's not like Vince found out and fired him, he clearly didn't know) so I guess it could have been any time but I always thought of it as her at 17 or something, I think I've even heard that age mentioned in the rumour. From my understanding of American law (I imagine it varies) that would still be classed as underage sex, whereas in the UK it wouldn't, but if that's the case then it doesn't make sense to say he's a paedophile. No matter how severe a crime that would be, I think it's completely absurd to putting it in the same category as having sex with a child which I don't think anybodyd suspects him of. Randy alluded to it to get heat from Triple H in his website promo remember, I can't imagine he'd do that if he'd had sex with her as a child.

44:00 Jim Ross talked about that stuff even back in 96 on commentator and on Live Wire when he called in. WWF Live Wire /guest: Vince Mcmahon From The Start: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D_SaLDT6H3U.html Time stamp 1) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D_SaLDT6H3U.htmlm46s Time Stamp 2) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D_SaLDT6H3U.htmlm35s Time Stamp 3) Owner of ECW, Paul Heyman calls in ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D_SaLDT6H3U.htmlm55s ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4eA1ZrmdmoA.html

I come back to this years later, and Solomonster himself mentions Roman being the guy to end Undertaker's streak. They ended up having Roman retire the man a few years later anyway, so while I liked Brock ending the streak, how did Vince not think Roman was the guy to do it in the first place? He was "their guy" already at that point, just before his mega push.

"Maybe it's his verbal skills, maybe it's because he's Swiss, maybe it's because I'm a mark for what I see on TV because I'm so out of touch I can't see how badly I'm making my own talent look week to week? Maybe it's the fact that I made him as stereotypically European as possible? Maybe it's because I personally don't like foreigners & accents? Maybe it's because of the fucking yodelling? How should I know? I just own this man's whole career"

28:20 Funny how time works.... He eventually came back But not because of vince.

When did Steve ask Vince about shane?

Yeah, after Vince say that about Cesaro I stopped listening.

I dont see why people are so upset about Vince's comments on Cesaro. Cesaro is a magnificent athlete and in the ring he could do things that not many people can do. People got over his giant swing and uppercut. But you've to be either naive or new to the wrestling industry thinking that such talents are enough to be a top player in WWE. We've had Mysterio, Kofi Kingston, Benjamin, Piper, Ted DiBiase and etc who were all talented in either in-ring work or acting chops but not BOTH. These guys weren't regarded as the top guys because they are lacking something intangible. Thats where Cesaro falls in. When you look at guys like say...Jericho and Angle. They are both very good wrestlers, they are entertaining and easy to get behind and against with. Thats what gets you to the top. Cesaro could have been booked better but saying that he should be among the top is just a little too far-fetched.

savage gave triple h sloppy seconds lol

im too lazy to watch all this will clips of it be on tv trax

Cesaro does connect with the audience, open your fucking elephant sized ears Vince, your boyfriend Roman Reigns doesn't connect.

This interview proved how out of touch Vince is.. Even though an outsider doesn't truly know Vince, by watching the interview you can understand the complaints ppl had who've worked with him in the past. Being dismissive, single minded and out of touch with reality.. You can't get ppl to like your product if you crap on your roster by saying how lack luster they are.. But one can imagine why they don't ask questions or go outside of the box. Its because the creative team stiffles any ideas but they're own and you have this weird, bully, bipolar work environment that incentivize people not to ask questions and go with the flow no matter how bad the idea is.. That's why people like Austin, and Punk left. Because they saw through the administrative b.s. McMahon says he wants the talent to be sharks and vocal but he fires the people who are vocal (see Jim Ross.). Then on top of that, he's a shady businessman which leaves more bad blood with ex talent.

Amen on Cesaro!!!!!

Sound crazy how his intro sounds different

This video aged well

Bray Wyatt not quite there? Dean Ambrose not quite there? How about booking them to win for once

and randy orton has charisma and great mic skills? vince is out of touch

good video

Wwe isn't Madtv, Madtv was hilarious and better than snl at the time

I agree about the 25 minute promos. Triple H is one of my favorite wrestlers of all time but starting every raw with him ranting has ran its course. really im tired of the heel owner. i want the main feuds to be wrestler vs wrestler not wrestler vs owner.

You could say that cable tv killed the territories.

5 yrs later now the fans want CENA BACK LOL!!!!

Why didnt anyone bring up kurt angle being turned down by HHH.

Gorgeous George then girlfriend of macho man said that savage wanted to have a 3some with her17 year old younger sister. so that Stephanie McMahon rumor might be true, but I doubt he went all the way probally wanted to but didn't succeed.

7:30 then why doen't he rebrand the fucking company as WSE????

Preach solomonater if you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem if fans are sick of seeing cena we'll show it don't buy his crap merchandise instead of voicing you're opinion on RU-vid do something about it !

Hate how easily Vince can sell the story right under people's noses. I like Austin, but it's obvious that his character, written as well as "The Rattlesnake", "Stone Cold" was, he was a lot more perceptive and sharp-eyed than he really is. That's the biggest shame, I thought that was his, I didn't think it was part of the show. One thing about CM Punk, nowhere near as entertaining, funny or badass as Austin, BUT, he's far smarter. Given the same bullshit Vince is throwing here, Punk would be able to cut through it like a knife. The only redeeming thing is that Austin is on "The Network" (nana-nana-nana-Leader/ Yvan et nioj/ cult-talk). Maybe he felt he couldn't be straight. But then that basically fucks up the whole point of Stone Cold's podcast and makes it a bit of a waste of time. Anyway Vince, you are out of touch with the fans, though I know you're answering that question thinking of little kids, the brats don't drive, and you've decimated your adult viewership pursuing cheesy boring toddler-humour. People wanted CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, now Ziggler, Rusev and Cesaro, yet you continue to send out Cena, Ryback, Batista, HHH. Boring. Boring boring boring. AND, a whole EXTRA HOUR! Of boring. Oh, but bluh bluh bluh, fluster fluster, you're in touch with your fans. Yet they boo Cena every single week. They've NEVER accepted him. And, if there are MULTIPLE main events, then surely putting Punk at the end of the show makes no difference, seeing as there are MULTIPLE main events, what difference does that main event have to the others? Why not put the guy in there? Just for shits and giggles.

11:00 Awkward day at work

I think Vince just heard the term "millennials" a week ago and he found it catchy so he used it. It was such a lame, half-hearted attempt to scapegoat an entire generation of wrestlers.

Thanks Vince now aew has Ces.

The creative process has to do with distributors and and stuff because of the times we live in. I've long said that it's not so much WWE'S desire to sanitize and dial down everything, it's the network and sponsors they have deals with. Don't get me wrong, I blame Vince for that because every time they sign one of these deals, especially their television rights deal, they're basically selling out more to the devil in terms of what they can or cannot do. I especiall think this was the case over the summer with thr latrest TV deal. NBC knee Vince shot himself in the foot by overhyping the network and knew they could take him to the cleaners not only on money. But promotions and content. When you get on Wall streets shit list, companies like that have you by the balls and they know it. You think Vince came up with the idea to have todd chrisley on RAW? Hell no! They want to do movies, the company says ok, but you're going to use your international tv show to promote. And then you factor in the fear of bad PR WWE has been peeing their pants over since Benoit, and WOAHLAH!

Vince is right.. maybe he didn't say it in the right way but Cesaro doesn't have that "it" factor to be a leading star.. midcard at best

raw is longer, but they're still pushing the same number of people. that's the problem.

Ryback is king, the greatest 'reslter of all times. Better than Dean Malenko, and more charisma than SCSA. Ryback is the best. If you disagree you aren't a real fan. Ryback vs, The Z Man, dream match WM32.

The comment by Vince that there was no one that could have bridged the gap with CM Punk and WWE is a LIE! What about uh um maybe PAUL HEYMAN? Does Paul not currently work for WWE, and is he not a close friend of CM Punk? What about John Cena? Yea maybe they don't exactly like each other but they had a working relationship and respect was built up. If they really wanted to make Cena look like a hero for once, why not have him stick his neck out for Punk again when he was in need of help in making sense of things? Cena is the perfect foil for punk but also could have been a friend when he needed one most. Fact is HHH acted like a jealous boob and felt that Punk was a threat to his own legacy which I don't see how that is even possible...HHH has already cemented his legacy and should have been happy with that and he needs to move on. It is pathetic that they let such an asset go this way and think that was going to be okay.

Hating Cena is now a fad. If people really hated him, they wouldn't buy his shit. Unfortunately, people who really hate Cena are a very small minority. But the kids and the women over weighs that minority. Cena sells.

Its funny how people want to bury Roman Reigns for having no charisma, when Cesaro is the exact same way, if not worse. His acting is shit, his talking is shit. He's a great wrestler no doubt, but so was Dean Malenko and he was mostly a lower midcard to upper midcard guy almost his whole run.

Monster hit it on the head. Corporate sponsor, they have screwed it up in wrestling and in life. The mom and pop shops are gone and now we pay up the nose all in the name of corporate sponsor Go to a ball game and take your kid or kids and see you spend a couple of hundred bucks and many of us cannot afford.

Brock LESNAR should not get pinned for a long time a "streak" if you will

no good is good an bad as bad good doe's not change based on what ever idiot making the laws at the time you can't praise jerry lee lewis an induct him in the rock an roll hall fo fame an condemn other there got to be A clear an exact code of ethic for every one to follow or nonr it all.

Attitude Era....too much? Needs more.