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#2. Vince McMahon's reaction to botch on WWE SmackDown

Vince McMahon is usually never very elated when a botch happens in WWE. And a botch is what happened on an episode of WWE's SmackDown in 2019. R-Truth became a two-time US Champion by beating Shinsuke Nakamura - something that wasn't planned to happen, but the WWE chairman loved it.

Former WWE referee Mike Chioda revealed on James Romero of Wrestling Shoot Interviews how Vince McMahon reacted when R-Truth made a major botch in his match against Shinsuke Nakamura and ended up becoming the US Champion.

“Vince loved it,” Chioda said. “R-Truth tells me the wrong f***ing finish. ‘You said you were only getting schoolboyed once!’ And he was like, ‘Oh, my bad, dawg, I’m sorry, man.’ He had the US title or something, 24-hour title… US title, I think. So it was kind of funny. I thought I was gonna get a bunch of heat coming back and Vince was like, ‘That was phenomenal, I loved it!’ I’m like, ‘What? Okay, great.’”

The match won by R-Truth put an end to Nakamura's US Championship reign after only two days.