Vince McMahon was the most powerful man in WWE for decades, and he released a number of wrestlers throughout his time with the company, and one had the guts to call him directly.
Back in 2005, Shannon Moore was released from WWE and started working for TNA Wrestling following his departure. Moore ultimately returned to WWE in March of 2006, and he recently revealed on Insight with Chris Van Vliet that he called Vince McMahon directly in an attempt to get his job back.
“Going back to WWE, it was a phone call that I had to make that was scary to good old Vince McMahon. I got a lot of heat for doing it, and I didn’t realize it until after the fact.”
“Yeah, I called a cell phone because I’d sent word but never heard anything back, and I had Vince’s number. I was just like, I have nothing to lose. I’m gonna go for it. I’m gonna call him, and sure enough…”
Shannon Moore noted that he didn’t answer when he added, “He didn’t answer. I left a voicemail. But the voicemail was like, ‘Hey, this is Shannon Moore, doing some really good stuff in TNA, and it was able to define my character a little bit. Would love for you to take a look at it if you can, and I want to come back. I want to come back to WWE as soon as possible.’
That night in TNA, I was standing at the DoubleTree here in Orlando, and I was walking across the parking lot to go to the Japanese restaurant, and I get a phone call from Double J, and Jeff’s like, ‘So I guess we have something to talk about, huh?’ But right before Jeff called me, that was whenever I got the phone call from Johnny Ace saying, ‘Well, kid, looks like we’re gonna be hiring you back.’ It worked taking that shot, and I’d already kind of prepared for that if I didn’t get the answer that I wanted from Dixie as far as a contract that night. So I’d sent some 8x10s and a video of some of the stuff that I was doing in TNA. I said that too in the voicemail. I think I let them know who had the footage, so I think they were able to see my new 8x10s and stuff too.”