Vince McMahon is a star - Matt Morgan

Matt Morgan

Former WWE Superstar Matt Morgan, in a recent interview, talks about being a fan of wrestling, meeting Vince McMahon and more.

When asked about being a fan of wrestling

I was a fan the entire time, all the way until now. Even when it wasn’t “cool” there for a minute, when it was transitioning from the cartoon side of wrestling into the Attitude Era.

I was in high school around that time when it wasn’t necessarily cool to be a wrestling fan for those few years there and I still loved it. I didn’t give two s–ts what anyone else thought. I didn’t care.

When asked about meeting Vince McMahon and if he found him intimidating at all

I mean yes, because he’s Vince. He’s a star. To me, being a huge wrestling fan, so of course it’s like holy s***, this is Vince McMahon! This is the guy I’ve been watching week after week. Huge, huge celebrity.

But no, because in my heart, you just know when you want to do something and you’ll talk to whoever you have to with as much confidence and whatever you have as possible to make that dream come true. He can be very intimidating, but he was very, very cool to me. Very, very nice and very encouraging actually. That man busts his ass in the gym, let me tell you that, boy.

When I was going there on Friday nights as well, I actually met Stephanie before I met Vince. She was in the gym. She works out hard as hell too, boy. She’s super, super encouraging.

She would say, “if this is something you really want to do, keep coming in here. You’re bound to bump into my dad. Keep it up, that’s a really cool story And if that’s what you want to do and it’s meant to be, it will be. There’s no denying passion.”

She was super cool. I bumped into her about three or four times before I actually met her dad finally within those eight months. That was very encouraging at a time when I’d go for eight months there.

When asked being injured and how the WWE reacted to this

It was pretty soon, I would say it was within a month. So I went back to work at Enterprise, I was actually selling cars for them at the time.

I’m out selling cars and I get the call, I believe it was Tom Prichard, that I’d be moving to OVW in Louisville, Kentucky. Here’s x amount of money you’ll be making. There’s no guarantee. Every 90 days technically you could be released.

That was a risk I was willing to take. My wife supported me so I had no qualms about it and was ecstatic. I couldn’t believe it. I remember jumping around my office all excited about it.