10 Worst Things Vince McMahon Has Ever Done
6. Creating The Infamous 'WWE Schedule'
The WWF/E schedule was infamously brutal. Sadistic, even.
Just to pre-empt any "You're a beta cuck" comments, the hardest bloke WWE ever hired, Brock Lesnar, couldn't hack it. The difference is that he didn't have to. As an elite world-class athlete, had options.
Vince McMahon is one of these lunatics who treats every day on the job as his first and expects everybody that he under-pays to work as hard as he does. Except he doesn't bump for a living.
For far too many years, the people who do bump for a living were asked to flat-back on a ring that has been described by several wrestlers as "concrete". The old, unforgiving WWF ring barely budged when somebody collided against it, but that was somewhat rare or at least reduced in the early years of Hulkamania. Curt Hennig bumped on that f*cking thing for two years and mangled his back.
Between bumping on a floorboard that Vince automatically assumed was fine until Jim Cornette pointed out that no, it wasn't - "Not my problem, pal!" - the WWF independent contractor drove themselves from city to city and sh*thole to sh*thole as Vince left no burg nor cent unturned in a ludicrously intensive loop. The results, indirectly, were disastrous.
Of course, WWE offers rehabilitation services to any contractor that has bumped on that ring or indeed the more giving structure that replaced it in 2000.
But...