Felix Upton on April 22, 2021
WWE was a much different place nearly two decades ago. In 2002, WWE took a Plane Ride From Hell when they came back from some UK shows that included Insurrextion. Things really got out of hand in a big way.
Vince McMahon and Kurt Angle were legit wrestling on the plane, trying to prove something to each other. Angle and McMahon also apparently got very close to opening the hatch on the flight and ending it all.
A flight attendant tried to settle McMahon and Angle down so they didn’t kill everyone. She had an order from the pilot, but as Kurt Angle said on his podcast, McMahon had his own reply.
“The crazy thing is, we were on the plane and there was wine stains all over the floor. The floor was white carpet and there was just wine stains everywhere. Vince and I were wrestling near the door, the latch, you open the latch and push it open, the doors open and you fly out the plane. We kept hitting the latch while we were wrestling, so the flight attendant came and said ‘Hey, the pilot said if you don’t sit down and stop he’s going to land this plane right now.’ And Vince says ‘Go tell the pilot to f*ck himself, I’ll buy the f*cking plane.’ I was like, ‘oh my God.’
“Here we are wrestling on the plane and we’re getting ready to land, they finally get Vince to calm down and we’re getting ready to hit the ground and [Chris] Jericho is sitting in front of me and he looks back at me and says ‘Look who’s coming up the aisle.’ While we’re hitting the ground landing, Vince is army crawling up the aisle to jump on me again, I’m like, ‘holy s–t, this is the night that will never end.’ It was a freaking nightmare.”
Dark Side Of The Ring plans to address the Plane Ride From Hell in their upcoming season. We are likely to learn way more than we ever wanted to know about that crazy night that could have been a very tragic end for a lot of people if McMahon and Angle would have kept hitting that hatch door.
Thanks to Wrestling Inc for the quote
April 22, 2021 8:19 am
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