Bruce Prichard once served as the right-hand man to Vince McMahon for almost 25 years during his run in the WWF. That all ended when he was released from his WWE contract by Stephanie McMahon back in 2008. He now hosts his own podcast, Something To Wrestle With, where he talks about all his great adventures in the WWE and tells some great stories in the process.
Recently, Prichard was interviewed on the Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast to talk about working so closely with Vince for all those years. Prichard explained how he was able to earn McMahon’s trust throughout their time working together, and here’s what he had to say:
“I’ll tell you what he used to say and it was there was nobody who disagreed with him more. Which is kind of funny because a lot of people always classify someone who has been there that long as a kiss-ass. I have a completely different viewpoint of the business than Vince does and a lot of opinions we share I think over the years we grew to kind of think the same way on some things. For the most part, I disagreed with him a lot and would disagree to with him to his face and we had a lot of knockdown-drag outs”
“I learned through the years how to travel through those land mines of arguments and Pat Patterson had said to me that I should maybe choose my words a little better and I incorporated the two most important words in my vocabulary which are “what if”. So instead of saying something sucks and your idea is horrible to just think about it for a minute, try it on and offer an alternative as “what if” we did it this way and it is a lot more palatable than that sucks. He never had to wonder where I stood on something. I’d tell him point-blank and never had to sugarcoat it.”
