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Teddy Long says former WWE executive John Laurinaitis "really hated" him and wanted him out of the company, speaking on insidetheringtmz. 

Asked if he had crossed paths with Laurinaitis recently, Long said no, and didn't hold back. "I really don't have nothing to really say about him," Long said. "All I can say is, though, he was one of the guys that I know really hated me and wanted me out of there. I know that, so that's basically all I can say."

Long said he never understood the animosity. "How can a person be mad at me for doing my job? I'm doing nothing wrong when Vince is happy," he said. "You think Vince McMahon would have kept me the face of his TV for nine years if I wasn't doing my job?"

Long, who still holds a WWE legends deal, made clear his loyalty is to Vince McMahon and said he hopes McMahon returns. "I don't think the chapter is ever closed with him," he said, adding that if he went back, "I wished it would be under the whims of Vince McMahon."

He credited McMahon with shaping him, recalling McMahon told him, "Teddy Long, they wasted you down south," and later that he couldn't believe he'd had Long "right here under my nose all this time." Long said McMahon "made a man out of me," wrote some of his most memorable material, and gifted him a bust of his own head, now Long's most prized possession.

#WWE #TeddyLong #JohnLaurinaitis #VinceMcMahon #ProWrestling

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