Gangrel Recalls Vince McMahon Using Him To Prank Donald Trump

Gangrel recently spoke with Chair Shots to the Cranium (via wrestlinginc.com), and spoke about the time Vince McMahon used him to prank Donald Trump and more…

On Vince McMahon Using Him To Prank Donald Trump: Details On Vince McMahon’s Workout Schedule SEE ALSO Details On Vince McMahon’s Workout Schedule “The Donald Trump thing, it was a rib and Vince [McMahon’s] plan,” Gangrel said. “I wasn’t even on the show at The Garden and all of a sudden, they called me at home and said, ‘Vince wants you at The Garden show.’ It’s last-second, you know I was all excited, I had always dreamed of wrestling at Madison Square Garden with WWE. I mean, The Garden is such a great venue. “So I was stoked and I get there and I see I’m a special attraction with Kane. I go, ‘wow, I don’t know why they really needed me. I’m just going to be chokeslammed in three minutes and be done, but whatever, it’s cool. It’s The Garden.’ “I go out to the ring and I see someone and say to myself, ‘that guy doesn’t really fit here,’ but I got the sunglasses on and the red lights are going and the energy’s going so I pretty much rush through it. I go up the steps and I can hear the people really getting behind me. I’m like, ‘Woah, this is cool. I’m over in The Garden.’ I start drinking [from the goblet filled with stage blood] and the deeper I kept drinking, the louder it got. I spray [the fake blood] and it roars so I’m guessing this whole time I was drinking down, people were trying to pull Donald Trump back, but he didn’t want to be touched so MSG security were pushing themselves against the guardrail. So they’re trying to push him even further away and I didn’t see them and I just spray as hard as I ever could spray. I was super scared I was going to get in trouble,” Gangrel said. “Stephanie told me, ‘my dad’s upset, Trump is his friend.’ She wound me up for like a day and a half or something and it turns out Vince set that whole thing up. He double-ribbed all of us.”

On Who Came Up With His WWE Entrance: “The entrance was Vince Russo,” Gangrel said. “Coming up through the fire, the blood spray that was mine, that’s kind of my tribute to Gene Simmons of KISS. Vince Russo was 100% on getting this elevator lift and wanting to come up through the ring of fire. So that was Vince Russo on that for sure, but it was cool because he called me on a Friday and said, ‘hey do you still do the vampire thing?’ I go, ‘for when?’ and they go, ‘Sunday.’ So I’m like, ‘oh crap.’ So they told me that WWE had never used a vampire gimmick before so I ran out in a panic to Hot Topic and came up with the white puffy shirt and whatnot and this and this and that. I’d wrestled as a vampire since 1990 so there wasn’t an issue with fangs or anything like that. I can’t believe they came up with that entrance with the lift and the fire and all that, that was an amazing thing. With Jim Johnston’s music, everything, the entrance and all that just became a perfect storm.”