Posted By James Walsh on 11/22/15


Stone Cold Steve Austin recently interviewed former WWE director Kerwin Silfies The Steve Austin Show – Unleashed!. Selfies discussed his time working for the WWE, why Vince McMahon stopped doing commentary for WWE programming, and more. Below are some highlights.

Silfies on McMahon doing commentary: “Nobody can tell the story that needs to be told better than the man who booked the story, and, so, everything [McMahon] did [on commentary] was pretty perfect. And I think that’s why whatever color [commentary] guys were working with him, they did their best work working with him, with the exception of Bobby [Heenan], who, hands down, did his best work working with Gorilla [Monsoon] because he wasn’t intimidated by him and he wasn’t worried that he would say the wrong thing.”

On why McMahon eventually stopped doing commentary: “He [has] got an amazing, amazing mind, if you ask me. I think he stopped [commentating] because he was frustrated having to sit there [at the commentary desk] and not be able to control other aspects of the show because he had to be doing the commentary and he could make do with someone else doing the commentary easier than he could sit there and watch everybody else, myself included, screw things up because he wasn’t able to help.”

Silfies on worrying for McMahon’s safety when he started getting into the ring as a performer: “Well, first, I thought that it was a great example for everyone that ‘I’m not expecting anybody to do things that I won’t do myself to the limits of my capabilities’ and his are pretty unlimited. And I also thought, ‘please don’t let him get hurt!'”

Silfies on the moment where McMahon’s limousine blew up: “It was kind of a small moment, but I was very proud of it and it was when we blew up Vince in the limo because it took a lot of work to set that up and there was all kinds of speculation about how we did it and how it was ‘Vince got out the other side of the car’ and ‘there was a fake leg that came out’ and all kinds of stuff that was just baloney. But we’re not Hollywood. We’re the WWE and we do a lot of things really, really well, but we’re not Hollywood and we didn’t have a five million dollar budget for that stunt and it came out perfect. People in the arena calling EMTs saying that Vince just got blown up in the parking lot. Now, that’s crazy! That’s just flat out crazy, but it was that good.”