10 Crippling Times Wrestlers Worked Themselves Into A Shoot
9. Vince McMahon
If the Undertaker was a mere henchmen in the WWF’s totally bizarre onscreen rivalry with (EC)WCW, Vince McMahon was the Major General.
The order came from the top: WCW was a joke, it cannot possibly exist as its own entry, and we’ll ride the dead horse through the summer before the WWF wins. Why wouldn’t the WWF win? We won! This toxic, counterproductive mentality coursed through the Invasion angle.
The kicker, of course, were those cushy Time Warner contracts that allowed the household names of WCW to live the Lanny Poffo life—but that didn’t quite excuse Vince from living the Lanny Poffo life, also, through sucking his own c*ck.
A massive, WrestleMania Vs. Starrcade super-show headlined by Steve Austin Vs. Goldberg wasn’t possible, but his regime could have managed something beyond Undertaker Vs. stalker DDP, or Booker T as comic relief, or using existing WWF guys to unconvincingly prop up the Alliance when Diamond Dallas Page, the real DDP, was right there. They could have, on reflection.
They simply held no interest.
McMahon won only a pyrrhic victory, sacrificing years of diminished business at the altar of his ego.