Believe it or not, this is why I quit watching pro wrestling for years.
Vince McMahon is a psychopath who surrounded himself with stooges and yes-men, and wouldn't take any nay-saying. You HAD to affirm his crazy ideas, or you were gone--even if you spent weeks preparing for them, and he changed his mind on the day of the show.
After years of putting up with this nonsense, I gave up on the company entirely in 2013. I knew that with their monopoly, they had zero incentive to get better. And for those unaware, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling was somehow even worse at the time.
It took the formation of All Elite Wrestling in 2019, breaking the monopoly, to get me interested in the art form again.
Eventually, Vince was finally forced out of his company thanks to credible and disgusting accusations--and normally I'd call this another MeToo attempt, but with how much of a piece of shit Vince is, they proved sadly believable. Look up Janel Grant.
WWE's huge increase in show quality since his ousting speaks for itself--and now that there's a viable competitor, they have every reason to keep producing good stuff.
Neither show is perfect, of course, but today's American pro wrestling is the healthiest it's been in a LONG time, largely because the psychotic old man you never say no to is gone.
Vince is the strange case where both his company and the entire industry would probably be nothing but a shell without his constant devotion and insanity dedicated to it, but his actual true hand was also a plague of utter nonsense and shit upon it too.
I'm glad to hear its gotten better as I myself bounced sometime in the mid 00s because of how hokey it had gotten.
Also, MeToo accusations against a tired, already retiring old man should never be believed. Its waiting to hit someone when they can't hit back and that's a literal violation of the Constitutional right to face your accuser. If you are that scared of him that you need to wait until he can no longer "threaten your career" then clearly the threat to your safety, dignity, and anything else wasn't strong enough for me to care either.
Believe it or not, this is why I quit watching pro wrestling for years.
Vince McMahon is a psychopath who surrounded himself with stooges and yes-men, and wouldn't take any nay-saying. You HAD to affirm his crazy ideas, or you were gone--even if you spent weeks preparing for them, and he changed his mind on the day of the show.
After years of putting up with this nonsense, I gave up on the company entirely in 2013. I knew that with their monopoly, they had zero incentive to get better. And for those unaware, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling was somehow even worse at the time.
It took the formation of All Elite Wrestling in 2019, breaking the monopoly, to get me interested in the art form again.
Eventually, Vince was finally forced out of his company thanks to credible and disgusting accusations--and normally I'd call this another MeToo attempt, but with how much of a piece of shit Vince is, they proved sadly believable. Look up Janel Grant.
WWE's huge increase in show quality since his ousting speaks for itself--and now that there's a viable competitor, they have every reason to keep producing good stuff.
Neither show is perfect, of course, but today's American pro wrestling is the healthiest it's been in a LONG time, largely because the psychotic old man you never say no to is gone.
Vince is the strange case where both his company and the entire industry would probably be nothing but a shell without his constant devotion and insanity dedicated to it, but his actual true hand was also a plague of utter nonsense and shit upon it too.
I'm glad to hear its gotten better as I myself bounced sometime in the mid 00s because of how hokey it had gotten.
Also, MeToo accusations against a tired, already retiring old man should never be believed. Its waiting to hit someone when they can't hit back and that's a literal violation of the Constitutional right to face your accuser. If you are that scared of him that you need to wait until he can no longer "threaten your career" then clearly the threat to your safety, dignity, and anything else wasn't strong enough for me to care either.