Hulk Hogan's CCW ruffling Vince McMahon's feathers

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Late last night, I read an article from the Wrestling Observer that reported World Wrestling Entertainment [WWE] chairman Vince McMahon [pictured above] has such major issues with Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling [CCW] reality show that he was overhead stating on a recent flight to Boston that anybody who is involved with Hogan's show would never work with WWE again.

To show he wasn't bluffing, McMahon has pulled Jimmy Hart, who serves as one of the judges on Hogan's show, from the "Road to Wrestlemania" promotional events and are claiming they will never use him again, which came as a shock to Hart, who received permission from WWE after asking them if he could participate in the show before it began taping its episodes.

In addition, it was also reported that other people in WWE are not too happy with Hogan's show as they feel it exposes the business in a way it shouldn't and McMahon's feathers have been so ruffled by Hogan's show that he doesn't want anyone who works with CCW to come to WWE events or talk with their talents.

All I can say is McMahon needs to get over himself and his freaking ego. How exactly is Hogan's show exposing the business in a way it shouldn't? Unless one has been living under a rock the last two-decades or longer, everyone knows that professional wrestling is scripted and the matches are choreographed after going through extensive training to perform said moves.

How exactly is Hogan's show, which has Hogan's friends Ed "Brutus Beefcake" Leslie and Brian Knobs as coaches training celebrities to do mini matches in front of a live audience, different from McMahon's reality show, "Tough Enough," that aired for three seasons on MTV from 2001-2003 and showed the contestants being trained to wrestle by WWE wrestlers in the hopes of winning a WWE contract?

There isn't other than the fact that Hogan's show is not associated with WWE and is one of the highest rated shows on the Country Music Televsion [CMT] channel, which has apparently bruised McMahon's ego.

I'm sorry but I have no sympathy for McMahon in this case as he is the one that opened this can of worms of exposing the business by publicly admitting in 1989 that his company's wrestling bouts were indeed scripted and McMahon did this to avoid having his company labeled as a sporting event and having to pay a sporting event tax.

As far as not wanting to work with anyone who appears on Hogan's show, I hope McMahon is not serious and realizes how childish he sounds. Guys like Knobs and Leslie have to find a way to make a living as their bodies have paid the price for being a professional wrestler and what exactly would McMahon like for any of his former wrestlers to do after their wrestling careers are over?

Also, how exactly is McMahon going to monitor who his employees are talking to when they are traveling and at home? Is he going to pull a "Homeland Security" and invoke his own "Patriot Act" that would allow him to tap all their phones and personal computers? Am I the only one detecting a hint of paranoia on McMahon's part?

McMahon must honestly believe that Hogan's little reality show federation is competition and a legitimate threat to his WWE empire to allow his ego to be ruffled worse than it was during "The Monday Night Wars" against Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling [WCW].

Why can't McMahon just sit back like all of the viewers and enjoy Hogan's show for what its...a simple, good entertainment show that passes an hour quickly?