Todd Grisham Recalls Being Cussed Out By Vince McMahon After He Said That John Morrison Likes Poetry On Commentary

Todd Grisham should’ve never read WWE Magazine.

Grisham worked for many bands throughout his tenure with WWE, which lasted from 2004 to 2011. Now that he’s been out of the wrestling industry for nearly fifteen years, Grisham is talking about his biggest blunder with the company.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet for a new interview, Grisham recalled a time where he mentioned that John Morrison was a fan of poetry. As you would expect, Vince McMahon was furious about this.

“Vince McMahon went insane on me one time because I said that John Morrison, who was a heel at the time, loved poetry. Normally, I wouldn’t say that, but there was a new WWE magazine. They just transformed it from being like a results-based boring magazine, like last week, Eddie Guerrero beat JBL by pinfall, here’s the description, to more of a Maxim-style lifestyle magazine. Get to know the superstars better. So they’re like, anytime you can incorporate stuff from the magazine, io it. It helps sell the magazine. It helps tell their story. It syncs everything up, great. So they did a whole thing on John Morrison; his finisher was called Starship Pain. So he wrote a poem called Starship Pain. So he’s in the ring and I go, ‘John Morrison, Starship Pain, he’s a big fan of poetry, and wrote a poem about the finisher Starship Pain.’ Vince goes insane in my ear. ‘Did you just say that our number one heel is an effing poet, you stupid F! What the f*ck! Shut up. Just shut up. Don’t say anything else! Jim Ross, you call the rest of this fight. I don’t wanna hear another effing word out of you.’ So literally, the match starts and I don’t say a single word for like five minutes, and then the match ends, and we gotta do a promo going to the next fight, and he goes, ‘Okay, you can talk now.’ I’m like, ‘Coming up next Shelton Benjamin goes one-on-one with The Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels.’ But he was so angry at me over that.”

John Morrison currently wrestles for AEW/ROH as Johnny TV. He currently leads the MxM TV faction alongside Mansoor and Mason Madden.

Special thanks to Chris Van Vliet and his team for the quote(s) in this article.