[tps_title]Virgil Keeping Kayfabe Alive[/tps_title]
When the topic turned to “what he’s doing now” is when the fun started. (It should be noted that, in the timeline of pro wrestling, my convo with WS Virgil was around the beginning of the ill-fated WWE “Invasion” angle, not long after WWE purchased WCW in real-life, and attempted to merge the rosters in an angle that had a ton of potential, but ultimately went nowhere.) As for the question, he indicated that he had done a tour of Japan with Hogan and a group of other wrestlers (guessing some permutation of Hogan’s cronies), which seemed plausible enough. But then he went into a spiel where he was actually explaining to me what his real life plans were through the lens of the kayfabe (general term for the suspension of disbelief/acceptance that it’s all staged) world of wrestling, which made my head spin something fierce. (not the last time this would happen). Noting, among other things, that
A “Shane McMahon is now the owner of WCW” (Storyline, yes….real world, no)
B “Some of my best friends are no longer with the company. Vince went right up to Jeff Jarrett and said that he was “G-O – Double-N – E….GONE!” (Those were close enough to the exact words that Vince used….ON THE TV SHOW….to describe his reaction to seeing Jarrett on TV (this was during the surreal simulcast of the last Nitro stow). Because there’s a remote outside chance that conversation may have happened in real life, he gets a pass, albeit a very flimsy one, on that one)