Stephanie McMahon has revealed that during her early days working for WWE, she personally helped write promos for her father, Vince McMahon, that were designed to insult fans in the United Kingdom. The story came out during a conversation with Grayson Waller on her podcast, What’s Your Story.
According to both Fightful and Wrestling Headlines, the discussion arose as Stephanie McMahon and Waller talked about WWE’s long history of touring the United Kingdom and the ongoing speculation about the company eventually bringing WrestleMania to the country. Stephanie McMahon used the moment to look back on her own apprenticeship under her father, explaining that part of her early job was crafting material that leaned into Vince McMahon’s heel persona by targeting UK crowds directly.
Grayson Waller, who is Australian, has built a significant part of his own on-screen character around taking shots at the United Kingdom, making him a fitting conversation partner for Stephanie McMahon’s recollection. The exchange tied together two eras of WWE storytelling, with Stephanie McMahon’s account of writing for her father’s character decades ago connecting naturally to the kind of national-rivalry heat that Waller still uses in his own promos today.
WWE has run numerous events in the United Kingdom over the years, and talk of eventually staging WrestleMania there has persisted, which is what prompted Stephanie McMahon and Waller to get into the topic in the first place. Her comments offer a rare behind-the-scenes look at how WWE’s creative process worked when Vince McMahon was the top on-screen authority figure, with his daughter directly involved in shaping the provocative, crowd-baiting material that became a hallmark of his character.
Neither outlet’s report included specific dates for when these promos were written or named particular shows where the material aired, and no further detail was given about the exact content of the lines Stephanie McMahon contributed. The anecdote nonetheless adds to the growing body of insight Stephanie McMahon has shared about her formative years in WWE’s creative and producing ranks before she rose to executive leadership roles within the company.
