10 Biggest Game-Changers In Wrestling Right Now
7. Vince McMahon
Vince McMahon is indomitable, and as comfortably the most powerful man in wrestling, there's no way he can't be included on a list of the sport's biggest game-changers. No one else has ever had such a demonstrably huge impact on the business as a whole. He's an untouchable marketing leader, can change the industry with a click of his fingers, and it'd take a cataclysmic event for WWE to ever be displaced atop the mountain.
But it's impossible to place Vince any higher than this. Creatively, McMahon is too regressive, too stubborn, and too stuck in his ways to be considered an icon of innovation anymore.
He'd be the kingpin if finances were our sole deciding factor, but while the Chairman continues setting records behind the scenes, his mainline product remains a creative muddle. Raw is largely built around an outdated Hulk Hogan-style champion, proving that Vince's main event booking style has barely evolved since the '80s. His methods don't create new stars. Widespread normalisation, brought on by 50/50 booking and other equally harmful practices, means 90% of his wrestlers operate on the same, bland level. The list goes on.