Vince McMahon Pushed For Surprising Name To Get Booked In Main Events

Over the years fans have seen a lot of unique WWE stars come and go, and James Ellsworth certainly made his mark during his run with the company. Ellsworth quickly became one of the most talked about wrestlers in WWE when he was working with talents like AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose. It sounds like James Ellsworth had a big supporter behind the scenes as Vince McMahon was apparently all about giving James Ellsworth TV time.

During an episode of his Oh You Didn’t Know? podcast Road Dogg explained that Vince McMahon pushed James Ellsworth despite people questioning his decision, and in the end Vince ended up being right.

“I’ll tell you whose idea a lot of this stuff with Ellsworth was, and that’s Vince McMahon. Man, he saw it, and he was right. When it comes to ratings, which is how you judge if somebody’s right or not in the TV business, we did well with Ellsworth. Like it was Ellsworth and AJ, Ellsworth and Dean Ambrose. It was like what are you doing? What are we doing here? And it was like, ‘No sir, we don’t want to put him in the main event.’ And he was like, ‘God, you have to.’ And he was right every week. It did better and better. It was like people had to see what we were gonna do here.”

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