Vince McMahon’s Bizarre Request Gave WWE Legend Sleepless Nights: “Start Dyeing Your Beards and Cutting Your Hair”

Published 01/20/2022, 8:00 AM EST

Scotty 2 Hotty had a conversation on Talk is Jericho about the time when the Performance Center coaches realized that Vince McMahon was taking over WWE NXT 2.0.

During the conversation, he revealed that before McMahon arrived, there was a certain pride among the roster about being a part of NXT. The culture was different. Everyone had an amazing time working with Triple H as the man running the brand.

“It was the coolest environment that I’d ever been in, in my 30 years of wrestling. Like there was just never that, you know, it was still the wrestling business. Don’t get me wrong. But there was this, there was a certain pride there that wasn’t anywhere else. And, it just started to change and they started to come in with you know, rules.”

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But, it wasn’t the rebrand which prompted Scotty 2 Hotty to quit as a Performance Center coach. It was the bizarre demand which came from The Big Man and the team about how their coaches looked!

“The next week was Hey, Vince, Vince wants the coaches looking younger so we need you guys to start dyeing your beards and cutting your hair. The coaches! Like, I literally lost sleep over it.”

Undoubtedly, it didn’t make sense to ask the coaches to look younger just because The Big Man wanted it.

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Scotty 2 Hotty did not expect Vince McMahon to make such demands

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Even though he had done the same before, it wasn’t what he expected WWE to demand from the coaches. It’s a different thing to change the look when someone is working as a pro-wrestler with a specific character and storyline. It’s a whole different story when changes are being pushed upon coaches. They are individuals who aren’t even going to be on WWE TV.

“It’s not about that. it was ‘what? do they just, they’re making us jump through hoops like monkeys.’.. You know? So, if you do that, what’s next? Right? So that was that.” H/t Talk Is Jericho

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It’s understandable why this was one of the last strings WWE could pull prior to Scotty 2 Hotty quitting WWE as a Performance Center coach.

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Shuvangi is a senior WWE and AEW author at EssentiallySports. She has over 1000 published WWE articles and also has experience in content operations with Forbes. Having completed her undergraduation from Royal Holloway, University of London, Shuvangi is closely aligned to the fitness industry, having amateur skills levels in tennis and basketball while rowing at a regatta level.

Vince McMahon’s Bizarre Request Gave WWE Legend Sleepless Nights: “Start Dyeing Your Beards and Cutting Your Hair”

Scotty 2 Hotty did not expect Vince McMahon to make such demands

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