5 Unwritten rules of Vince McMahon's WWE

#2 A ban on sneezing

Vince McMahon is known to be an incredibly dedicated professional who goes to great lengths for the sake of the business. Many deem him as a perfectionist who strives to achieve the very best he can at all times. Over the years, people close to Vince McMahon have revealed some strange, and sometimes hilarious, habits about the WWE Chairman. One of these is the fact that Vince McMahon hates sneezing.

Vince doesn't expect his employees to sneeze as he views it as a sign of weakness. Many past and present WWE employees have discussed this insane backstage rule in interviews, including former WWE Superstar Chris Jericho, who wrote about it in detail in his book.

Current AEW employee Arn Anderson also opened up recently on Vince's hatred towards sneezing.

As I saw things, a person coughing, sneezing or maybe they just came in the door and looked bad, sweating or pale, and the looks that they got, I had a whole different mentality and thought process on that, he would look at these people like he wanted them dead.

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