10 Secrets To Vince McMahon's Success

10. Old Money & Ruthless Aggression

The New York territory provided Vince McMahon with the perfect platform on which to launch his early 1980s nationalisation strategy.

The Madison Square Garden epicentre always represented a major payday for the travelling independent contractors of old, and acted as the primary lure for those turned by McMahon's monopoly attempt. With the moneyed northeast territory bequeathed to him by his father, Vince McMahon held the richest hand. In the plainest terms possible, McMahon simply threw that old money at the biggest draws of a splintered, superstar-powered landscape, which soon coalesced, ironically, under McMahon's divisive vision of "sports entertainment".

The National Wrestling Alliance model was oddly socialistic, given the country over which it ruled. McMahon's victory was secured through the very essence of capitalism. He likely wasn't the only man to recognise how antiquated the old model was - but, spurred by the game-changing advent of the cable television revolution, he was the only man with the transgressive balls to destroy its sacred, crumbling ground.