When it comes to the world of professional wrestling most fans would agree that the art form is at its best when exciting action gets combined with great storytelling. There are a lot of people coming up with ideas in WWE, but only so many of them actually make it to TV.
During a recent interview with The Asylum Wrestling Store, former WWE star Heath Slater opened up about an idea that he pitched to Vince McMahon that would have seen him win the Intercontinental Championship.
According to Heath the idea was for him to feud with The Miz and highlight their clashing personalities in a Hollywood vs. hillbilly storyline. Heath claimed that at first the Chairman of the Board loved the idea, then two weeks later he hated it.
“I’m pitching to go for the IC Title which Miz had at the time,” stated Heath. “So I wanted to do like Hollywood with The Miz versus country and hillbilly for me. So hillbilly was Hollywood, you know? So I do hillbilly things, he does Hollywood things. I try to take him to do hillbilly things, he’s like, ‘Nah man, this is awful.’ He tries to take me to do Hollywood things but I [don’t like it]. You know, that type of stuff. It could have been entertaining as hell, let me get the title. The following week, I lose it back to him, who cares? But it would’ve been a good storyline, good things and then Vince [McMahon] looked at me and loved it, two weeks later he hated it and wanted me to the do the story [of the tag team titles] and tag with Rhino so I’m just like, ‘What just happened here? You were all for it, now you’re not.’”
Heath was released from WWE last year, but has since resurfaced in Impact Wrestling. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
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