Full Storyline Idea for Katie Vick Revealed

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Former WWE creative members Seth Mates and Chris Gough were guests on The LAW's "Review a Wai" podcast this past Wednesday to chat about the October 21st ,2002 "Katie Vick" edition of Raw. The full show and interview is available for download at this link, as well on iTunes and the free Stitcher app.

Here are some highlights, transcribed by Chris Maffei.

The genesis of the Katie Vick storyline: "At this point, (Vince) wanted to start having a lot more backstories to wrestlers. He didn't want it just to be like, 'Oh, I wanna beat you up. You stole my girlfriend, let's have a match.' He wanted it to be more like, 'I wanna know who every character is.' Their backgrounds, and a lot of that. You've seen through the years of wrestling, he's gone up and down with this kinda stuff.

"It was just a matter of, 'We want to know more about Kane. We know about Paul Bearer and the burning angle, and the Undertaker scenario, but we don't really know much more about him. So let's spend the last ten minutes of this conference call discussing Kane's background and coming up with a way to bring Kane back,' because he had torn his bicep, and he was coming back to TV. It started off with us pitching ideas about how to bring Kane back."

Vince McMahon's pitch: "At the end of the call, Vince basically made the call to say, 'Why don't we make Kane...why don't we say he's a murderer, and he's murdered somebody in his past?' It sort of formulated into what you saw. This was Vince's seed.

The funeral home shoot: "The necrophilia thing had only really begun in that vignette. That vignette was done by Stephanie (McMahon), Vince, and Bruce (Pritchard), and I believe it was mostly Stephanie; Stephanie Triple H, and Vince were the ones behind that. This wasn't discussed; Triple H was involved the whole time, so no one had to explain it to him. He was obviously almost part of the family at the point, he knew everything that was going on. Kane, on the other hand, he was getting a little bored with his direction. He had the big start in '97, and it ran its course. He wanted to change it up a little bit, so they decided they were gonna push him to go for a title run eventually, for the World Heavyweight Championship against Triple H in October. It was a situation where he knew it was going to be a big push, he's taking on Triple H.

The angle was basically, 'There's a backstory here where he's gonna start picking on you for your girlfriend dying, and that he's gonna start acting like you killed her, and he's gonna start playing more emotional mind games with Kane.' That was the pitch, with Triple H and Kane. There was no, like, 'Hey, by the way, he's gonna say that you banged your ex-girlfriend when she was, uh, dead.' That was never even talked about until the vignette aired, and it really wasn't talked about after that again. That wasn't an idea by a writer, that wasn't pitched to anybody. That was the vignette that was of the sick minds of the McMahon family that was taped in the funeral home that night."

 

[Riley Escobar]

 

[StatUS]

The McMahons suck so much

 

[MBwithadream]

 

[Bud Bundy]

we still talking about it.

The game aint above fukking over a dead women to make yall mad.

 

[Golayitdown]

we still talking about it.

The game aint above fukking over a dead women to make yall mad.

 

[Busby]

I remember on the McMahon DVD where they are all the wrestlers be COMPLETELY honest with how they felt about that segment...

I remember Rock's EXACT words were,

"How did THAT make it on the air?! "

 

[ThatTruth777]

HHH shytted on Kane serious with this crap too but it was pretty hilarious and a bit . I can't remember did he face HHH later on as planned?

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

HHH shytted on Kane serious with this crap too but it was pretty hilarious and a bit . I can't remember did he face HHH later on as planned?

He did. kane jobbed. Great pay off.

The worst part about the angle is it completely changed who Kane was. Kane was supposedly raised by Paul Bearer in secret. Held from the world for being hideously burned and scarred. Next thing you know he takes the mask off, has hair then doesnt, has burn marks then doesnt, and then he was normal teen with a girlfriend and became crazy after he killed her?

fukk outta hea. Suspending disbelief can only go so far.

 

[jackswstd]

So Vince wanted a Kayfabe murderer on his payroll huh? And HHH being heavily involved in the whole thing really gives me great hope for the future of the company when he's in control.

Spoiler

 

[krackdagawd]

we still talking about it.

The game aint above fukking over a dead women to make yall mad.

The GOAT heel, still has dudes mad a decade later. That's my HHH

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

So we gonna act like Steph and Haitch weren't sittin around at the shoot throwing a few back and goin "hey look! I'm fondling the mannequin haha!!" and decided to just throw it in there?

It's not like they sat around and wrote this.

It was harmless whiteboy/frat humor.

 

[PTBG]

lol the shyt made no sense. I thought Kane was raised by Paul Bearer and was burned in a fire with Taker, than outta nowhere they said this dude was party with a bytch named Katie and was driving her home and Kane was driving and the car crashed was Kane was hella over too, but this storyline was just The McMahons are some sick fukks and are stupid. I honestly haven't watched that segment since 02, and don't plan to. But, the fukk is up with the McMahon's though, Kane a murderer? I remember the whole crowd was laughing at this whole stupid ass storyline

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

So Vince wanted a Kayfabe murderer on his payroll huh? And HHH being heavily involved in the whole thing really gives me great hope for the future of the company when he's in control.

Spoiler

 

[The Push Man]

Oh yes,

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