10 Most Insane Vince McMahon Lies WWE Fans Fell For
1. WWE's Origin Story
This isn't just a Vince McMahon lie, though it's something oft-parroted by various talking heads when WWE re-told the history of pro wrestling, via the physical home video market and the Network, once it acquired the tape libraries of various fallen territories.
Triple H when talking to Logan Paul last year said that, before Vince McMahon took it mainstream through his expansion campaign, wrestling was a "tiny little thing happening in bars".
"A tiny little thing happening in bars."
The idea that Triple H took a lot from from Harley Race, watching on as the former NWA World Heavyweight champion worked matches in the Black Bull, is absolutely preposterous.
Vince launched this narrative to put WWE over as a mom n' pop underdog tale. It made the achievement of the company resonate that bit more. Vince - and a shocking amount of WWE stans actually believe this - made wrestling big and glamorous. The last part is correct, the first part is flagrantly untrue; if anything, looking at the median attendances of pro wrestling shows in the 1970s and 1980s, the opposite is true. WWE made itself bigger and made wrestling on a wider scale smaller. The WWE of 2023 would be ecstatic with the attendances drawn by World Class at the Texas stadium in the mid-80s.
Texas Stadium is a strange name for a boozer, isn't it?
The only time pro wrestling at a major level ever looked like this was in the WWF of the mid 1990s.