10 Terrifying Wrestling Curses That Will Chill Your Blood

1. The Vince McMahon Other Ventures Curse

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Let's end with something light and celebrate the miserable failures of a very unpleasant man - although this will chill your blood, if you're one of those weird freaks who simps for a billionaire.

Vince McMahon tried to launch a bodybuilding league, the WBF, in the early '90s. It was a dismal failure; there was little appetite amongst the general public to watch McMahon go apesh*t over the male form while the male form just flexed its muscles a bit.

"You have to want it!" was Vince saying "Please want it" to sell his ICOPRO range of supplements. Incredibly, the public was more interested in watching superhumans - provided they wrestled - than becoming superhumans themselves. He tried his hand at football - the one played with your hands - via the XFL. That, too, was a disaster. Turns out the amateur skill levels and pervy half-time shows weren't popular.

Nobody wanted to eat at his nightclub restaurants (WWF New York) nor go on his amusement rides (WWF Niagara Falls). They had no real interest in watching his WWF Studios movies either, possibly because he cast the three-foot-long d*ck that is Glenn Jacobs in a starring role.

It was as if Vince McMahon was cursed to fail at every single thing he tried to do that wasn't part of the pro wrestling business - while insisting that he wasn't in the pro wrestling business. He was in the "entertainment business", except he wasn't.

All those years later, and "sports entertainment" only exists as a phrase used by another promotion to banter his bullsh*t off.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!