10 Secrets To Vince McMahon's Success
1. Genuine Genius
Vince McMahon's historical genius is self-evident: bluntly, he did not come to oversee an empire, no matter how well-placed he was to build it, without possessing genuine brilliance.
As a storyline performer, McMahon was arguably wrestling's best ever - a hammy, hilarious, hysterical entertainment machine with a killer grasp of the catharsis at wrestling's core. As a promotor, McMahon was inarguably wrestling's greatest ever; even if he sometimes stumbled a*se-backwards into revelations - like the Undertaker's WrestleMania Streak - he held the nous to kick into a higher gear.
He sees things we'll never see; the ridiculous potential within Braun Strowman; the star power in Batista, who most pegged as a generic hoss; the subversive possibilities lurking within the anachronistic Kurt Angle persona, circa 1999...
His enduring genius still exists, despite the self-indulgence granted through the comfort of absolute market dominance. Sami Zayn, by his own account, thought he should act the tough guy following his recent heel turn. McMahon disagreed; "big smile out there," he instructed, per Zayn's appearance on the E&C Pod of Awesomeness. It worked: this new Zayn is brilliantly obnoxious.
McMahon is a wrestling genius; he's just been allowed to rest on his laurels for far too long.