{"id":141609,"date":"2022-06-19T20:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T01:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=141609"},"modified":"2022-06-19T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T01:42:21","slug":"theory-says-leaning-into-confidence-were-vince-mcmahons-first-words-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/06\/19\/theory-says-leaning-into-confidence-were-vince-mcmahons-first-words-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory says leaning into confidence were Vince McMahon&#8217;s first words of wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3318370465\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Vince McMahon&#8217;s first words of advice to Theory involved his confidence.<\/p>\n<p>On the Out of Character podcast, Theory discussed working with Vince McMahon and the advice he gave him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember standing right at the mirror, which is right before you go out, and Mr.McMahon was walking up to go into Gorilla and he told me, \u2018Go out there and be confident like I know you are,'&#8221; Theory said. &#8220;I remember that was like the first message that really resonated with me. And this was since we had that meeting, which was probably maybe a few weeks before, so this was the first thing I was really hearing right before I was gonna perform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat kind of sat with me and I was like, \u2018He knows I\u2019m confident, and I know I\u2019m confident and I\u2019m not going to go out there and do something that I don\u2019t know how to do. So, I know I got here so let\u2019s go out there and work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Theory is currently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/06\/17\/6-17-wwe-smackdown-tv-results-mcdonalds-alt-perspective-report-on-riddle-reigns-undisputed-title-mr-mcmahon-appearance-max-dupris-first-client-revealed-moss-corbin-last-laugh\/\">WWE United States Champion<\/a>. He defeated Finn Balor to win the title and has been paired with Vince McMahon as McMahon&#8217;s protege since coming up to the main roster from NXT.<\/p>\n<p>Theory lost to Pat McAfee at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WrestleMania<\/a> 38, but then helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/06\/17\/vince-mcmahon-to-step-aside-as-wwe-ceo-and-chairman-of-the-board\/\">Vince McMahon<\/a> beat McAfee in an impromptu match.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/06\/19\/wwe-smackdown-receipt-3\/\">HEYDORN\u2019S SMACKDOWN RECEIPT 6\/17: Vince McMahon pulls a sad stunt to open the show<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3298161512\"><div id=\"pwtor-280941972\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Vince McMahon&#8217;s first words of advice to Theory involved his confidence. On the Out of Character podcast, Theory discussed working with Vince McMahon and the advice he gave him. &#8220;I remember standing right at the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2022\/06\/19\/theory-says-leaning-into-confidence-were-vince-mcmahons-first-words-of-wisdom\/\" title=\"Theory says leaning into confidence were Vince McMahon&#8217;s first words of wisdom\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":137499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[6720,71],"class_list":["post-141609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-theory","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/04\/Austin-Theory.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141610,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141609\/revisions\/141610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}