The Disturbing Truth Behind The Worst Month Of Vince McMahon’s Life
The Chairman has a November to remember...
Vince McMahon, as evidenced by his gradual and enforced decline as an on-screen performer, hasn't really had an awful lot to sweat about over the last decade. As of 2019, ratings aren't ideal, talent morale isn't what it could be and dweebs like your writer are smashing their heads into screens trying to make sense of his product, but Chairman LMao himself has guffawed his way into the biggest television deals of his insane life and an XFL reboot in 2020 that already somehow looks set to knock all the punchlines into a cocked hat.
The glow of fortune can be fickle, but it's shone brighter than ever on McMahon since he escaped his last scandal largely unscathed. In 2007, the ramifications of the Chris Benoit double-murder suicide were such that he had to make wholesale changes to his output, or at least look like he had. A move from TV-14 to PG serviced lucrative merchandising and sponsorship deals, whilst a broadly functional Wellness Policy (instead of an entirely impotent) helped talent as a secondary function. The primary one? In McMahon's own words - "public relations".
He'd been forced to get much better at that after Owen Hart fell tragically to his death during Over The Edge 1999, five years after his company approached a commercial and creative nadir following scandals and charges strong enough to send him to jail. In July 1994, he was legally and publically exonerated, but over a catastrophic period between October and November 1993, he was months and multiple lifetimes away from the safety of the following summer, or the infinite security of the present day.
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