Heidenreich once had a very disturbing idea for a WWE return and it involved stalking and abducting Vince McMahon.
While speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, the former WWE star admitted he always thought he might go back to the company after his 2006 release. He just never knew how to properly approach WWE with the idea.
“Always in my mind, I thought I would go back. I had an idea to come back. I didn’t even think about telling you this. I never went back, but I wanted to. I just probably just didn’t know how to approach it to do it. If I would have went back, could I say the idea I always thought about?”
Heidenreich then revealed that his proposed comeback would have started from a stalker-style perspective, with someone secretly watching Vince McMahon without revealing who it was.
“I thought they would show from my perspective, somebody watching Vince (McMahon), almost stalking him, and whatnot, but never show it’s me.”
The storyline would have escalated from there, with Heidenreich abducting McMahon, placing him in a trunk, and taking him to a building while everyone wondered where the WWE Chairman had gone. In true Heidenreich fashion, the reveal would have included his red gloves and one of his poems.
“Eventually, I abduct him from the show. I take him, and I put him in a trunk, and I bring him to a building, and they still don’t know. He’s missing, and then eventually I have him chained in a building with a light or something, low light. Then I walk up, and you see the red gloves, and then I read him a poem.”
Heidenreich said the motivation behind the storyline would have been revenge. In his mind, the character believed McMahon had taken everything from him by cutting him from WWE.
“My thing is, you cut me, you took my life from me, you took my world. That was my world, and I was gonna abduct him and make him pay, and I guess try to make him re-sign me or something, but it was gonna be kind of outside, not just getting back to wrestling, being like he robbed me of everything. Because it was a big thing.”
Heidenreich never returned to WWE, so the storyline never made it past being an idea in his head. Still, the pitch shows just how dark and unusual his comeback concept would have been if WWE had ever brought him back.
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