10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Vince McMahon

10. Just How Bad It Got When He Last Took Total Control

WWE is on the rise.

The promotion sets record gates virtually everywhere it goes. SmackDown ratings are skyrocketing, with the product anchored by the Bloodline saga, and Raw is doing great numbers too. WWE is hot and in a growth period. That this has happened with Vince McMahon gone (and subsequently back, but lurking menacingly on the periphery) is no coincidence whatsoever.

Given that he is slyly creeping back into the mix, he'd probably want you to forget - if he were capable of introspection - just how poor the product was before he "retired" in July 2022.

Nobody got over, really, unless their character was guided by Paul Heyman. While he could pull off a quite incredible WrestleMania night one, and didn't get a chance to ruin Cody Rhodes, McMahon's product was bone dry at best and impossibly stupid at worst.

Triple H has a disaster in him - Uncle Howdy was an abomination - but in the dying days of Vince's WWE, disaster was the norm.

But really, by the end, WWE was actually more tedious than anything else. You couldn't even rely on the perverse laugh that was watching a decaying old man soiled his pants; absolutely nothing of actual interest happened on his shows.

WWE would rather you forget the content void over which Vince presided because the prospect of a return to those days might dampen this boom.