Vince McMahon says Bob Costas deserved "to get the sh*t beat out of him" during their contentious 2001 HBO interview

New York Post

McMahon still hates the grilling Costas gave him -- on everything from the XFL to WWE -- on a 2001 episode of On the Record. “Once we were doing the interview, he kept interrupting me and interrupting me, and bringing up topics that had nothing to do with what we were supposed to be talking about,” McMahon said in James Andrew Miller's HBO oral history book Tinderbox. “He kept trying to do the ‘I gotcha’ kind of thing. It was clear he didn’t want to hear any of my answers." McMahon added: “The other problem was that Bob is so freaking pompous. The entire time he acted like he was above me and was just using me to show how great he was...I was sitting there really pissed off and started thinking, I wish he wasn’t 5-feet high and 140 pounds. If he was 6-5 and 295, he would deserve to get the sh*t beat out of him. I could have really given them some great television.”