8 Desperately Weird Vince McMahon Promotional Tactics

There's no chance in hell these were good ideas.

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Vince McMahon is one of the craziest businessmen in the history of the world. That’s a bold statement, but how many other people have done such weird, crazy things to become a billionaire?

Besides promoting pre-determined fights to build his empire, he’s often gone to strange lengths to keep his viewers interested when ratings start to take a hit. Some call it desperation, some call it madness, others just call it Vince being Vince.

Since the early 1980s, McMahon has run the wrestling world his way. He changed the landscape of how to promote the business, how to get his product on TV, and inserted movie stars, musicians and sports heroes into the fold along the way. He also drastically upped the production values for his product, making every other competitor look like the minor leagues in comparison.

While a lot of his outside-the-box ideas have increased his fortune, others have seemed quite insane. He's an eccentric man with his own set of ideas, many of them quite terrible. There is simply no one else like the WWE chairman, and no one who promotes quite like him.

Here are his eight weirdest promotional tactics thus far...

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