In a recent appearance on “The Masked Man Show,” David Shoemaker discussed working on the production of the Netflix docuseries “Mr. McMahon.”
The project was initially a collaboration with WWE, allowing them to involve McMahon. However, when sexual misconduct allegations against McMahon surfaced in July 2022, WWE decided to withdraw from the project.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On WWE’s initial involvement: “WWE was a producer on the doc at the beginning. With that, we wouldn’t have gotten Vince to sit down. We wouldn’t have gotten the archival footage. There is just so much they are putting on the table. I don’t know the ins and outs. All I know is when the allegations started coming out about Vince; it became untenable because nobody wanted the WWE co-production; I’m sure WWE didn’t want to be involved in it either.”
On WWE removing itself from the project: “At that point, somehow, WWE was no longer involved. When we interviewed Bruce (Prichard) and we said, ‘You’ve seen some cuts.’ They had access to rough footage. At some point, they didn’t have it anymore. I think that worked out for the best for the whole documentary.”
