10 Wrestlers With The Worst Motivations
8. The Passive-Aggressive Childishness Of Vince McMahon
Professional wrestling is an extremely petty business. This is the schoolyard, a tit-for-tat universe where grudges are simultaneously eternal and quickly forgotten. Vince McMahon is the undoubted apex of this, the king of taking out mild grievances through career-destroying gimmicks. These gimmicks don’t destroy the careers of the person Vince is trying to get to. That isn’t how wrestling works.
There are plenty of examples over the years, but few carried the ‘Petty Vince’ gimmick better than the Steven Richards-led Right to Censor (RTC). The group was a parody of the Parents Television Council (PTC, get it, chortle), a company that at the time was protesting the levels of violence and the amount of lewd content on WWF TV. Looking back, the PTC had a pretty good point.
Truth be told, Richards was pretty great in the role of the overly-PC mouthpiece. Ivory was perfect in her role as a dragon-like schoolteacher. The rest? Not so hot. Val Venis went from porn star to a dude in a shirt and tie, while The Godfather (re-christened The Goodfather) has gone on record to say he hated the group.
But it doesn’t matter what you think Charles Wright because the whole point of RTC was to stick a finger to the PTC. Well, less stick a finger, more blow raspberries, but you get the point.