Jim Ross Discusses Nailz Attacking Vince McMahon, Accusing Vince of Sexually Assaulting Him

On the latest edition of Grilling JR, Jim Ross discussed the series of lawsuits between Vince McMahon and Nailz in 1992 following Nailz allegedly attacking McMahon physically and then filing what McMahon claimed was a false police report where Nailz claimed that McMahon sexually assaulted him. Nailz also claimed that McMahon forced him to take steroids, which McMahon denied. Nailz ended up filing a lawsuit against McMahon and WWE for wrongful termination, prompting a countersuit by WWE against Nailz. Highlights are below.

On Nailz feeling like Vince McMahon was personally preventing his growth in WWE: “Nailz is a little different cat, kind of unstable from what I remember, and he wasn’t getting his break, he wasn’t getting his push, there it is, that push word again, and he felt like that Vince was personally subduing his growth. Let me ask you how smart that really is if you think about. Why would you have someone on your payroll, and you’re paying them, and you’re traveling them, and you’re putting them on television, if you want their character to die? That’s like when WWE was going to do the last few things with Matt Hardy, well everybody said they’re burying Matt Hardy, that was their intent, to bury Matt Hardy, from their own mismanagement, and lack of attention to detail, and lack of common sense, they got Matt Hardy over more on his way out, than they did while he was there. He was doing promos, he was in hot angles, he was with Randy Orton, blah, blah, blah, so you’re not burying him, you’re getting him over, dumbass. So now Matt Hardy is in AEW which is gonna be great for us, I think.”

On communication breaking down between Nailz and WWE: “I think that Nailz just had this vision of him being this major star, and being the top heel in the company, and when that didn’t come his way, he felt like he had been personally assaulted, or attacked, and then he, being a very competitive and combative individual, maybe not as stable as some people would like for him to be, I didn’t know the guy that well, like you said, I wasn’t there, but I know the altercation he had with Vince, and then of course he had to come up with an excuse, that McMahon put a hit on him something, well that’s stupid, that’s just ridiculous. It’s just another deal where an issue between two people, Vince & the WWE and Nailz, the communication broke down, they stopped talking, they started ranting, it was just bullshit, is the way I remember it. But talents have a funny way of not wanting to accept responsibility for their own success or failure.”

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