What is Vince McMahon's gripe with Randy Savage?

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Earlier today, I read a news article from PWInsider.com that stated "Macho Man" Randy Savage (pictured above), who wrestled in eight of the first 10 Wrestlemania's and won the WWE Championship at two separate Wrestlemania's, will NOT be a character available to play as in the upcoming "Legends of Wrestlemania" video game for PS3 and XBOX 360, which is scheduled for a release in March 2009.

The decision came from Vince McMahon himself, who reportedly excluded a few other big names from the game for one reason or another, with Savage and Mick Foley being the two most notable names so far.

It was also reported that THQ officials, who are developing the game and have developed all WWE video games since the original WWE Smackdown video game for PS1, were most unhappy about not being able to use either Savage or Foley in the game, especially since Foley was originally schedule to appear in the game but following his release and bolting to TNA a few weeks ago, McMahon decided to pull his character.

I honestly do not understand McMahon's gripe with Savage and the more I read about these types of incident of McMahon excluding Savage from video games or having an action figure made for the "Classic Superstars" line made by Jakks, the more I start to believe the wrestling urban-myth that Savage had sex with Stephanie McMahon when she was 14 and Vince found out after Savage had gone to WCW.

Either that or something else happened between the two of them that we the fans do not know about and has not been reported. If you think about it, isn't kind of odd that nearly everyone who left the WWE for WCW during the Monday Night Wars, such as Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Roddy Piper and more have been welcomed back to the WWE post-Monday Night Wars except for Savage?

Heck, Bret Hart was inducted into the WWE Hall-of-Fame in 2006 and all wrestling fans know the bad blood there was between Hart and Vince.

Honestly, how can someone who had three of the top Wrestlemania matches of all time (Wrestlemania III vs. Ricky Steamboat, Wrestlemania VII vs. Ultimate Warrior and Wrestlemania VIII vs. Ric Flair) not be included in a game titled "Legends of Wrestlemania?"

In addition, I find it baffling that Vince will not allow Savage to be in the video-game or have an action figure made but yet, continues to air all of Savage's matches on WWE 24/7, now called Classics on Demand, releases his matches on various dvd complications and anthology sets but axes him from future projects. To quote Gregory "Hurricane" Helms, "Wasupwitdat?"

To conclude this entry, I would like to show you the official game trailer for the video game in question via youtube and after viewing the trailer, you decide if Savage should be included in the game or not.