5 Times Vince McMahon pranked WWE Superstars/employees (and how they reacted)

#4 Vince McMahon pranked Rob Bartlett

WWE made light of Rob Bartlett's Vince McMahon impersonation

WWE fans have seen multiple Superstars mock Vince McMahon by impersonating or dressing up as him in televised segments, but former commentator Rob Bartlett took things to a whole new level during his brief stint at the announce desk in 1993.

Bartlett, a comedian and radio personality, had limited knowledge about WWE and the wrestling business when he commentated alongside Vince McMahon and “Macho Man” Randy Savage for three months on RAW.

Speaking on NotSam Wrestling in 2019, Bartlett recalled the time that he decided to impersonate Vince McMahon for an entire RAW episode whilst working alongside McMahon and Savage’s replacements for that week, Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan.

One week later, Vince McMahon jokingly fired Bartlett in a WWE production meeting, while he got his own back by sending the commentator to the wrong venue for an episode of RAW.

“For a second, I was like, ‘You can’t fire me because I’m going to quit.’ But it was really funny, so he got me back by not telling me that they were gonna be in the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, so I showed up at the Manhattan Center.”

Vince McMahon was so determined to prank Bartlett that he even hired a camera crew to film a remote shot of him standing alone in the wrong arena.