Jesse Ventura had an idea for an angle that was too big for even Vince McMahon.
The former Governor of Minnesota recently returned to the WWE for the first time in over a decade. His last full-time run with the company was in the 1990s. Ventura had an idea for one of the biggest WWE angles of all time after he was in office.
Jesse Ventura appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet where he revealed the plans for this storyline. He talked about pitching the idea of creating a “WWE Party”, and having their own presidential nominee in the country.
He claimed Vince McMahon said he would back Ventura politically, which is where the idea came from.
“I came to Vince McMahon. I’ll reveal this to you. I flew out to Connecticut. I sat in Vince’s office with him and Linda, and I proposed the biggest angle the WWF/WWE could have ever done. And it was too big for Vince.”
“Vince told me that he would back me on anything political that I wanted to do. So I went out to him and I said, Vince, we can do an angle right now. You can come out with the WWE and say we’re going to have our own nominee for president, the WWE party, the World Wrestling Party. Meanwhile, Vince has people in every state, he can send those people, get ballot access, and do what’s required to get on the ballot in all 50 states.”
Jesse Ventura Planned To Wrestle Vince McMahon For The Presidential Nomination
Jesse Venture continued, revealing that McMahon would convince everybody that he was the presidential nominee for the WWE Party.
However, The Body would quickly come out and argue his case. This was meant to lead to the pair picking two wrestlers to represent them. This was a concept similar to the “Battle of the Billionaires” from WrestleMania 23.
“He could do that for me. I said, then you work the angle Vince where everybody thinks it’s going to be you. You’re going to be the nominee. But we do something where I come in and say bullsh*t, I’m a governor.”
“I’m the natural WWE candidate for president, then you do a schmoz where Vince and I get two wrestlers to represent us. Whoever wins gets the nomination. My guy beats Vince’s guy. I then become the nominee of the World Wrestling Federation for President and I have ballot access in all 50 states because Vince could have done it.”
Vince McMahon Didn’t Even Call Him To Reject The Angle
Jesse Ventura was most annoyed at Vince McMahon because he never even called him to turn him down.
The former Governor of Minnesota revealed that after he and Vince fell out, he never got a call to say the angle had been rejected.
“Well, here’s the part that pissed me off and where Vince and I big time separated. I flew home. He didn’t even bother to call me to turn me down. I thought that was the most disrespectful thing. First and foremost, when I flew out there, he made me wait an hour. I’m the former Governor. I’m out of office now.”
“Then I shoot him this angle. If he did just called me and said, Jesse, it’s too crazy. It’s too hokey. I don’t think we can do it. I would have said fine, I gave it a try. But he didn’t even call me back. That was so disrespectful to me as Governor Jesse Ventura, as Jesse Ventura the man and as Jesse Ventura who made Vince a ton of money.”
