"I still think most of the wrestlers have a huge amount of respect og Vince and what he created"
That's only because they HAD to go to Vince, after WCW folded. WWE Basically WAS professional wrestling at that time apart from TNA and their 6-sided ring nonsense. No one had a choice.
So now they all thank Vince, for getting them into the wrestling business. If it wasn't Vince in charge , it would have been someone else. It's a job. Everyone's replaceable at the end of the day.
Anyone could do Vince McMahon's job. Make up fake wrestling feuds and scripts? A 6 year old could do that. It literally takes no mental capacity, you don't even need to know how to write scripts. You don't even need to know how to WRITE.
Most of the fights are worked out between the wreslers, anyway. They decide whos gonna win, where all the falls are, whos gonna take what fall when, and how to work the crowd. It's all the wrestlers who actually do all the work, create the characters, and make the promos. Vince McMahon just decides when and how he's gonna screw them over.
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OldG (776)
a month ago
I am not saying it takes a accomplished writer to do these storylines... and yes it is decided who wins that is a given... But somehow Vince did end up beating every competitor who tried to challenge WWF/WWE...
The Undertaker for example said he would take a bullit for Vince... if that is not respect I don't know what is...
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chumbawampa (732)
a month ago
Yes, but only by copying WCW... Poaching their stars, arguably copying their 'attitude era' from what WCW was doing at the time. Both of them were copying / immitating eachother during the Monday Night Wars.
It was just a matter of who could rip the other off the most, and steal eachother's ideas. Which Vince ended up being the best at. He also blatantly ripped off ECW with all the blood and hardcore matches they brought in to WWF. Even bringing ECW characters on like Cactus Jack and Terry Funk to revive their ECW acts. By the time you get to the Attitude Era, WWF was just taking old ideas that had already been done from ECW and WCW and repeating/reusing them just on a bigger stage.
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OldG (776)
a month ago
You can spin it however you like... But Vince won... so even if he copied them he apparently did it better... I stopped watching wrestling in the early 90ties so never experienced up close when WCW began to challange WWF.
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WandererFromYs (2308)
a month ago
Buying out your competition and shutting them down is a pretty weak definition of winning. At least if your metric is who did it better. Pro wrestling has been on the decline ever since. There was some initial excitement with the invasion angle, but that quickly went away once people realized they were just going to trash the other league to put over wwe talent.
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OldG (776)
a month ago
Again I haven't really watched wrestling since the early 90ties... but if we can trust the documentary then WWF/WWE had again overtaken WCW in the ratings when they offered Vince to buy WCW, so if that is true... he did beat them in the ratings before buying them...
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chumbawampa (732)
a month ago
It's WWE having no competition that makes it stale . They have no other major Wrestling promotions to compete with , so they don't really have to try to create inventive stories, now that they basically have a monopoly over the industry.
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