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10 Things: WWE Wants You To Forget About Vince McMahon
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29/10/2024
Bodybuilders, a fight against God and more than you can shake a stick at... Welcome to the insane world of Vince McMahon.
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Vince McMahon is one of the strangest creatures in the universe, he's stranger than this squid
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with human teeth. He's the owner of a huge global corporation, a multi-multi-millionaire,
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an industry leader and has spent much of his 50s and 60s covered in blood, poo and baby oil. Also,
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he looks like the love child of Tommy Lee Jones and every sex pest in the world.
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Look at him, you know he's got some pretty huge regrets. I'm Adam from WhatCulture.com
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and here are the top 10 things WWE want you to forget about Vince McMahon.
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10. The Night He Tore Both Quads
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The Royal Rumble 2005 had a bad botch at the end of the match which led to Batista and John Cena
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being eliminated at the exact same time. Seriously, that was not supposed to happen,
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but look how perfectly they land. Anyway, confusion reigned for a few minutes until
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Vince McMahon who looked, let's say, a tiny bit miffed, stormed to the ring and threw himself
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under the bottom rope. He tries to get up but decides against it, sitting on the ring canvas
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barking orders like the world's angriest child at a Punch and Judy show. Turns out that while
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getting in the ring, he had torn not one, but two quads. Kevin Nash takes his hat off to you,
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sir. It's a stark reminder that Vince McMahon is older than a tortoise's dad's favourite oak tree
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and something that he preferred not to remember. 9. He Fought God And Won
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Because Vince McMahon 316 says, and you shall worship no other god but me.
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Vince has an estranged relationship with the Almighty. In 2003, he claimed he was chosen by
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God to slaughter the Undertaker, but in 2006, as a way of exploiting the well-known fact that
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previous pill-head Hellraiser HBK had found salvation, he distanced himself from the Lord,
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founded his own religion of McMahonism, and with his demon seed Shane McMahon at his side,
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decided to challenge Shawn Michaels to a tag match at Backlash. Shawn's partner? God. Yep,
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this happened. Vince talked smack in a church, messed around with holy water, and when Backlash
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finally came, God came to the ring, depicted as a spotlight. Then Vince told God to get
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jiggy with it, and he danced around the ring to Somebody Call My Mama. I'm not making this up.
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Vince McMahon is beyond mad. 8. He Said What About The Undertaker's
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Wife Well, this is an example of how, hey,
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things might not be that bad under the PG era. Remember that feud with the Undertaker I mentioned
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earlier? Well, in the lead-up to Survivor Series 2003, Taker chose Mr. McMahon to wrestle him in
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a Buried Alive match. Vince was understandably a bit cautious about this, and in order to get
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out of the fight, threatened Paul Heyman. When Pauley dangerously couldn't help him,
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Vince lost it and said that he was going to have Undertaker's house burned down,
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and these are his words, his wife raped by a motorcycle gang.
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Wow. That's one of the worst things I've ever heard. The WWE want this buried deep.
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7. The WBF Remember the World Bodybuilding Federation? Of course you don't.
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Vince McMahon has always liked people who look like they're made of lots of rocks glued together.
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I mean, look at this picture of him in Muscle & Fitness. He's one scary grandad.
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In 1990, thinking that the reason people like WWF is that they like looking at muscly men,
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he started the WBF, the World Bodybuilding Federation. Here is a bit from the WBF
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Championship 1991 recap. Hmm, that's the most homoerotic thing that has ever happened.
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Men in tiny thongs, stretching and bending, bending and stretching, stretching and bending.
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It didn't do very well. 6. His
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Illegitimate Son Don't give me any of that,
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he's actually Finlay's son bollocks. That's a cop-out retcon and you should be ashamed of
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yourself. In 2007, Vince McMahon blew up. Boom, there he goes. He then came back shortly after
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because of the Chris Benoit incident. The initial purpose of the fake death, however, was to reveal
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that Vince had an illegitimate son on the WWE roster. Now, they still wanted to go with this
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angle, so they tried it again later that year. Who was Vince McMahon's love child? Many stars
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were teased, including Triple H and all the delightful incest implications that come with
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that. The son was originally booked to be Mr. Kennedy and be the start of a huge push for him.
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However, he was implicated in a steroid scandal and got suspended, so it was revealed that Vince's
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bastard son was, in fact, Hornswoggle. Hmm. They tried to get out of it months later by saying he
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was actually Finlay's son and it was all just a trick, but no. No. Hornswoggle McMahon. That's
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what it is. Own up to it, you cowards. 5. The Kiss My Ass Club
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Vince is a bad boss. He does bad things to the people who work for him. Case in point,
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the Kiss My Ass Club. So, right. Vince's buttocks have been kissed by the following people. William
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Regal, Jim Ross, Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, Shane McMahon, his son, and Hornswoggle, his son.
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Why did people have to kiss an old man's bottom? Because wrestling is only as sane as the man
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writing the storylines and as we've discovered, Vince McMahon is madder than a fridge full of dogs.
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It's a pretty horrible example of stupid art imitating stupid life and the company would
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like you to put it behind you. But if Vince did that to the guys who work for him,
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that's nothing compared to the women. 4. He's macked it with most of the women
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in his company. So, you're the boss of a company that exclusively hires beautiful women. What do
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you do? You order them to kiss you or let you feel their boobs on national TV. That's fine,
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right? That's not one of the worst examples of workplace harassment since Willy Wonka organized
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an Oompa Loompa key swapping party, right? Wrong. Vince engineered it so he could kiss and share a
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bath with Trish Stratus and make her bark like a dog, that he could kiss Tory Wilson on her first
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day in the company, that he could make Stacey Keibler dance for him, that he could make out
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with Sable, double horrible considering that she'd sued him for sexual harassment years before,
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and that he could fondle Candice Michelle's boobs. What is it like being Vince McMahon's wife?
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3. He drugged his wife. Oh, that's what it's like. For months leading up to WrestleMania X7,
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after asking his wife Linda for a divorce, Vince began drugging her to the point that she was
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reduced to a comatose state. He did this really, really illegal thing on live TV. He would kiss
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Trish Stratus in front of his drugged wife and announce that he would never forgive her for
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giving birth to his son Shane. Sure, it paid off at WrestleMania, but it's still really horrible
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and weird. Their family Christmases must be odd. Funnily enough, when Linda started running for the
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US Senate in 2008, all mentions of being drugged into a coma by her husband suddenly stopped.
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2. The XFL. Screw his in-ring losses. This is one of Vince McMahon's most public defeats. In
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2001, in order to capitalize on the WWF's peak popularity after the Attitude Year and get some
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of that sweet NFL dollar, McMahon announced the creation of the Extreme Football League,
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the XFL. It would air after the NFL season finished and feature extreme rules like,
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uh, an opening scramble for the ball and, um, a shorter play clock. Woo.
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The omens were bad from the start as the XFL promotional blimp crashed over Oakland before
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the show even began. It folded after one season following terrible ratings and poor attendance.
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WWE lost between $30 and $60 million and Vince himself described it as a colossal failure.
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1. The Steroid Trial. It was a trial that could have taken down the company. In 1994,
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McMahon was taken to court and charged with distributing steroids to his wrestlers. The
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superstar formerly known as Nails, you all remember him, testified that McMahon had ordered
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him to take steroids and even Hulk Hogan appeared for the prosecution, although he denied that
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McMahon had ever given him performance enhancing drugs. McMahon was acquitted, narrowly, but it was
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one of the lowest points in his life and had things gone differently, we might all be watching WCW
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right now, which is a galling prospect. And that's our list. Did we miss any out? Tell us about it in
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the comments and don't forget to like, share and subscribe and you can even follow me on Twitter
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here. I'm Adam from WhatCulture.com and I'll see you soon.
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