On Monday, December 1st, Steve Austin and Vince McMahon sat down for an epic live podcast taping on WWE Netowrk wherein the WWE chairman seemed less-than-positive about the current state of his wrestling corporation. The man who held the WWE Championship for 434 days quit the company and publicly aired his numerous employment grievances and the company's planned brand extension to the online broadcasting realm has been not so smooth. As well, stock prices continue to dip, the pay-per-view model has been abandoned, and in the ring, wrestlers on the main televised product appear much less motivated than they have at any other point in the company's history. However, for as negative as the WWE Chairman may seem, there are ways to work with and through McMahon's apparent negativity for talents to salvage either their own passion as professional wrestlers, or more positively, WWE's success as a company. The responses can be broken down into three categories a) responding positively to McMahon, b) responding negatively to McMahon or c) not giving a care what Vince thinks at all. Ultimately, within these seven ways that wrestlers can respond to Vince's seeming meltdown, WWE can right itself and talent can be excited for the future, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
