For decades Vince McMahon ran WWE with an iron fist and he was infamous for banning words as well as banning moves. It seems that the Vince McMahon bans were not limited to just words and moves as he also banned card games from the WWE locker room.
During a recent interview with Clutch Points, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Duggan recalled Vince McMahon banning card games and noted that wrestlers would sometimes get so into the games that it would distract them from their matches. Duggan also recalled a hilarious incident involving his cards flying out of his ring geat.
“Sgt. Slaughter would make these real elaborate card brackets. And I actually have one, too, so it’s one of my favorite keepsakes, ’cause you got, like, Mr. Fuji, Arnold Skaaland, Andre the Giant, Bam Bam Bigelow, is part of the tournament.
So anyway, Vince [McMahon] finally banned the tournament. He said, ‘No more, no more card playing. You can’t play cards anymore in the dressing room.’ And a lot of people were like, ‘Man, that’s pretty bad. I don’t understand why.’ But there’s actually a pretty good reason he did that, you know? You’d be sitting there, you’d be playing cards, and you’re like, da, da, da, da, da. ‘Is that my music? Oh, s**t That’s my music. Oh, s**t. Where’s my toolbox for?’ And of course, if you’re playing cards, and you’re in your wrestling gear, there’s no place to carry cards, right? I mean, where you gonna carry your cards? So I used to carry mine in my knee pads, you know.
And so one day I went on, forgot all about them. You know, now the show starts, I got a pack of cards in my knee pad. And like, my music hits, so boom, I storm out there. I’m having a match. Bing, bang, boom. I throw the guy in. I pick him up. I drop the big knee. Cards go flying everywhere. Magic trick. I get… Skaaland’s like, ‘Duggan, where’d those cards come from?’ I said, Fan must have thrown them in the ring.’”
Drew McIntyre also recently shared an interesting story about Vince McMahon, and you can get more details on that here.