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Vince McMahon felt 'genuine pain' when WWE fans rejected his gimmick idea

Vince McMahon

Vince McMahon has been in the wrestling business for decades now and it is not surprising that some of his ideas have failed. The number of good things he has done overshadows the failures but The New Day revealed that the failure to get a positive reaction from the WWE Universe when they debuted hurt the WWE Chairman.

Kofi Kingston recalled the incident on Feel The Power podcast and said that the babyface preacher gimmick was not a success, which was clear to Vince. He said:

“He said, 'I really thought people were going to cheer for this thing.' All of us just start laughing because there’s no way that people are going to cheer three positive-preaching preachers in this day and age in the wrestling world. People aren’t coming to the show to cheer for religious… anything, really.

“We all start laughing and he was like, 'No, no, I’m really serious, I thought this was gonna be something that people would get behind.' And we’re like, 'Oh my God, he’s the only one who actually thought that this was going to be an accepted dynamic.'”