WWE Star Fired For Calling Fans ‘Pricks’

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A WWE star was fired from the company for calling fans “pricks” according to Hall of Famer and former World Champion JBL.

August 2012 played host the WWE main roster debut of Brad Maddox, who was introduced as a referee a couple of months before getting involved in the main event storyline between Ryback and CM Punk, low-blowing Ryback at Hell in a Cell to allow Punk to retain his title.

From there, Maddox became WWE Raw General Manager and was someone Vince McMahon apparently saw big things in, but he found himself getting fired due to the use of one particular word McMahon had a dislike towards.

In a pre-show promo in 2015, Maddox used the word “pricks” to describe the fans, which ultimately led to McMahon firing him straight after.

Speaking on Something To Wrestle, JBL explained:

“I talked with Vince a lot, I flew with Vince a lot, Vince told me one day, he goes, ‘That kid’s special.’ It’s the only time I’ve ever heard him say that. He’s said nicer things about people, but the way he said it, like, ‘That kid’s got it.’ You don’t hear that from Vince very much. Vince really liked Maddox.

“And then when he went out there, I’m sitting there waiting for a pre-show, I’m sitting there waiting to go out with Michael Cole, and that’s when Maddox called the fans a bunch of pricks or something. He comes back and Vince fired him.

“Vince hated that word, he thought that was a classless word. It’s one of the few times I got in trouble.

“All the stuff I’ve said on commentary, all the stuff I’ve said in promos, one of the few times I ever got in trouble was when I called someone a selfish prick, I think is what I called them, or egotistical prick or something like that. Vince pulled me aside and goes, ‘We have sponsors here, we have all these people here, you can’t use language like that.’

“There’s something about that word that Vince hated. But yes, that was the word that got Maddox fired.”

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• Vince McMahon
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