10 Insane Lengths Wrestlers Went To Get Revenge For Real
4. The Billionaire Ted Skits
In which Vince McMahon exacts revenge for...
...being challenged at the game he invented, played, and won.
If Vince McMahon is a child - and he is, since he loves scatological humour, is prone to fits of uncontrollable rage when he hasn't eaten his din-dins, and frequently moves on to new toys when he's bored - this was him throwing the controller against the wall in a bitch fit.
Which he imposed on his viewing audience of millions, none of whom give a single toss.
Vince McMahon recruited and pushed wrestlers from other territories - the AWA, Mid-South, New Japan, Mid-Atlantic, the lot - and promoted them effectively with his omni-platform marketing juggernaut of the 1980s. Hulkamania was running wild before 1984. Vince bought out the time slots of his cable TV competitors by offering the stations a cut of his live gates. He crossed boundaries and ran head-to-head in markets that once "belonged" to other promoters by sneakily booking the second biggest arenas in town as part of this insidious expansion campaign.
Ted Turner went head-to-head with him, and when the monstrous hypocrite spat the dummy, he exacted revenge by parodying Turner in a series of skits so wildly unfunny and alienating that his TV network told Vince to cut the sh*t.