How Vince McMahon Will React To ROH Selling Out MSG

If Vince didn’t care about the G1 Supercard, he wouldn’t have tried to block the show from taking place.

If Vince didn’t care about All In (which sold out in 30 minutes), he wouldn’t have effectively pulled Deonna Purrazzo from the show by conveniently signing her to a full-time deal in May, then tried to do the same with Rey Mysterio.

McMahon cares. Deeply. This is the way he has always been, and it’s part of why WWE became the world’s most dominant wrestling promotion in the first place.

He won’t take the G1 Supercard’s success lying down. Further action is imminent, particularly in the personnel department

The past decade has seen a major shift in WWE’s signing policy, with the promotion largely spurning the fitness models and NFL dropouts of old to comb the global independent scene for its biggest and brightest. Those fitting the old ideals still get in, but in fewer numbers.

This switch has proved profitable for WWE. Their developmental focus has largely moved away from building ground-up prospects, to refining those who’d already learned their craft on smaller stages, with the Performance Center essentially becoming a finishing school.

NXT is now a big budget super indie, and the policy switch has created some of WWE’s biggest modern stars. Seth Rollins, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, and hosts of others plied their tried in ROH before jumping ship. Finn Balor was a star in Japan, and one of the architects of the ongoing European independent boom. Shinsuke Nakamura was already among the planet’s most charismatic performers. WWE Champion AJ Styles skipped developmental, but became one of the best in the world in TNA and NJPW. The list goes on.

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