Maven's misfired forearm injured Snitsky, McMahon furious backstage

Former WWE star Maven recounted a career‑defining mistake on a recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, saying a misfired flying forearm during a pay‑per‑view main event legitimately injured opponent Gene Snitsky and prompted an immediate, furious confrontation with then‑WWE chairman Vince McMahon backstage. Maven said the incident happened when producers urged him to "be a house of fire" in the match, and that he overdid a sequence of flying forearms before feeling "the crunch" of a mistake.

"I was amped, because we're coming in and pay‑per‑view," Maven told the podcast. "They told me, before I went out, this is your spot to shine in this main event match. We need you to be a house of fire. And, man, I just overdid it. I had thrown endless number of flying forearms, and that one, I still remember hitting him and feeling the crunch and being like, 'Oh God.'"

Maven said he barely had time to recover from a chair shot he had taken in the match before McMahon met him at the Gorilla position and berated him for being dangerous. "Vince jumped my ass backstage for that too," Maven recalled. "Soon as I came back through, Vince meets me, he jumps up from the monitor,...