10 Most Revolutionary Individuals In Wrestling History
2. Vincent K. McMahon Creates WrestleMania And A Wrestling Empire
When it comes to visionaries in the wrestling industry, there have been few greater than Vince McMahon, Jr. This is the man who took his father’s regional promotion and turned it into a global pop culture phenomenon, while disregarding territorial agreements and creating a monopoly on wrestling in the United States.
Indeed, many of Vince’s ideas were revolutionary. While his father was credited with putting wrestling on TV, the younger Vince was the one who created WrestleMania, the largest and most spectacular wrestling show of all.
The idea for WrestleMania to be shown on CCTV, and all the pomp and grandeur of the event, made it an enormous gamble, one that many of Vince’s advisers thought would fail and ruin him financially. But WrestleMania ended up being a tremendous success, and it ushered in a new period of dominance for WWF.
Other revolutionary ideas that have succeeded for Vince include: having wrestlers become multi-talent stars, bringing the boss onto TV screens, and a star-making philosophy that emphasizes charisma and personality over in-ring skill.
Say what you want about some of his recent decisions, but there’s a reason why Vince is so adamant on keeping to his now-antiquated ways: he has history on his side when it comes to him making the right choices and laughing in the faces of naysayers.