Someday, Vince McMahon will retire from WWE, and after that, Stephanie McMahon will truly be the primary owner of the company. Someday after that decades from now Stephanie will step down. When her careers as an on-screen talent and day-to-day business runner wind down, it will be her turn to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, just like her father and grandfather before her. And man, what a circus that'll be. The quality of Stephanie McMahon's character on WWE TV can be debated some people may say that she's one of the most entertaining parts of shows as of late, carrying her feuds with Brie Bella and Daniel Bryan. Others may find her persona grating, and take umbrage with the way she (like her father, though he's got a better track record of entertainment) makes talent look bad by having them capitulate to her on-screen. She's polarizing. Less polarizing, though, are her contributions behind the scenes. She became director of creative writing in 2002, and has since been working her way up the ladder, her fingerprints growing larger over the product. Many consider her appointment a sign of WWE's creative decline. Former co-workers have chided her lack of insight into the workings of the wrestling industry. Either way, it can't be argued that WWE is not as successful a company as it was in 2000. When the day comes to induct her, older fans will recognize her true legacy as someone who took the world's largest pro wrestling company and made it slightly smaller.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
