10 Indisputable Reasons Why Vince McMahon Is Not A Genius
5. He Fails To Evolve
A mark of a true genius is someone who is ahead of their time, or who has their finger on the pulse of society. They capitalize on whats hot, and present a product that strikes a chord with the masses. Vince McMahon has been able to do this a couple times throughout his lengthy career. More often, though, hes hopelessly dated.
Longtime fans look back fondly at the WWF during the Rock n Wrestling era. There were plenty of colorful wrestlers along with celebrities and sports stars showing up to make wrestling seem cool. But those fans eventually started to grow up, and they wanted something new. Vince McMahon did not grow with them, and good God was his product awful! From 1993 to 1995, WWF programming could be downright unwatchable.
Vince was stuck in his ways, and just trotted out one lousy gimmick after the next. We had plumbers, dentists and repo men. Attendance was falling, new stars werent being developed, and the entire company was stuck in a creative rut. Vince wasnt aware, or didnt understand that fans craved something new. Over in Philadelphia, though, a little promotion was producing more die hard loyalists than he was. His audience was largely apathetic or bored by his product. Vince presented King Mabel, Diesel, Lex Luger, Yokozuna and Doink the Clown as some of his biggest stars at the time. ECW was giving fans sex, drugs, and rock n roll.
It took the WWF years to catch up, and since they were the most visible wrestling program in the country, they began to look like the innovators. It was far from the truth as not only ECW, but WCW had beat him to the punch as well with their groundbreaking NWO storyline. Vince did not evolve because he saw that times were changing, he evolved because he was already hopelessly left in the past.