On the latest episode of the Shut Up and Wrestle podcast, Valerie Marella-Jankowski, the daughter of the late WWE Hall of Famer Gorilla Monsoon, revealed that A&E was once in talks to produce a documentary on her father, but the project was halted by Vince McMahon. The decision reportedly came after McMahon was unhappy with his portrayal in the 1998 A&E documentary, Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows , which chronicled the “Montreal Screwjob”.

Appearing on the podcast to promote the new book, Irresistible Force: The Life and Times of Gorilla Monsoon , Marella-Jankowski explained that the family was approached by A&E during the height of the network’s popular wrestling biographies in the late 1990s. “I remember we would watch them every Sunday night, and they were really good,” she

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