10 Wrestlers That Can't Exist In Real Life
2. Vince McMahon
The standard line on Vince McMahon used to be that the Mr. McMahon character was an obscene exaggeration of a corporate monster rather than the typical "turn your real-life self up to 11" cliche.
So what exactly is the "steak wrap" aficionado like behind the scenes these days? Without the man himself playing a significant role on television anymore, we can only use his wrestling product to judge him on how he views the world. And on that evidence, he's obviously gotten too weird for it.
Long before the ongoing global b*stard appeared with all the welcome energy of The Fiend at the front door of the Firefly Fun House, McMahon was losing viewers by the thousands and being forced for the first time in decades to shoot shows in buildings that may as well have been three-sided.
With the pushes of both Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold Steve Austin, McMahon was rooted firmly in reality, and the characters wouldn't have worked without the footprint being so deeply ingrained in what the public wanted. By comparison, the push of Roman Reigns may as well have been him trying to land one on the surface of the moon without a spacesuit.
It's not the McMahon can't touch reality anymore. It's that he won't.