10 Incredible Wrestling FIRSTS You Didn't Know About

10. The First WWE Match That Wasn't Booked By Vince McMahon

Obviously, Vince McMahon, Sr. booked matches before his son did, so this entry only accounts for WWF history after Jr. took the reins.

Triple H booking NXT matches shouldn't count, either; even though those bouts were "sanctioned"/promoted under the WWE banner, it feels like cheating and isn't particularly interesting.

(The same goes for various house show matches that Vince just grunted his approval towards on the phone if he wasn't physically present).

This entry should only cover the main roster, but the first WWE match not booked by Vince McMahon predated the coining of that term. No, Triple H did not book the first post-Vince televised WWE match in 2022; in a wild and forgotten tale, Vince handed over the pencil to Bill Watts, for all of two to three weeks in 1995, so that he could better concentrate on the corporate side of the business.

Yes, Vince was pulling his "can't be in the weeds any longer" crap almost three decades ago.

Vince, of course, couldn't stay away - despite holding a meeting alongside Watts on September 24, in which he emphatically declared to wrestlers that he would not overrule his new hire. He did, after a matter of weeks, reversing a Watts decision to book a heavy heat angle in which Diesel, Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker were annihilated by a super gang of heels. Vince, aghast at his babyfaces looking vulnerable, hurriedly taped a Dok Hendrix promo in which Dok said that the Undertaker wasn't hurt, or put on a stretcher: the wind had been taken out of his sails!

Working under the assumption that Watts had nothing to do with In Your House: Triple Header, just before which the meeting took place, this would place Skip Vs. Marty Jannetty from the September 25, 1995 Monday Night Raw as the first WWE match Vince had nothing to do with.