Jimmy Wang Yang recalls Vince McMahon meeting after he forgot he was fired from WWE
Jimmy Wang Yang revealed his meeting with Vince McMahon after he forgot he had been fired from WWE. And how that led to his second stint with the company.
On the latest episode of the Insight Podcast, Yang revisited the time he was trying to get WWE tickets for himself and his date. He ended up meeting McMahon who seemed to forget that he had been fired.
“Steve Rubin used to hook us up with tickets and I take this girl out wanting a diner, all this kind of stuff. So I go down there, I get to the building, I go down I’m standing around greeting everybody and all of a sudden Vince is walking down toward me. I’m like ‘Hey, Vince’, he’s like ‘Jimmy, where the hell you been?’ You know, I was like, you fired me. ‘What? I did.Oh, we got to talk about it. I don’t want to talk to you in a minute. Just stay here. I got to go do this. I’ll be back.’ He didn’t know he fired me.”
Later, WWE approached him and got him involved in DX’s segment with Spirit Squad. He appeared on the following Raw and SmackDown. John Laurinaitis pulled him aside backstage and informed him that WWE was rehiring him.
Yang’s second WWE stint extended from 2006 to 2010. Following which he extensively competed on TNA before a third comeback as a WWE producer and released again shortly after.
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