10 WWE Authority Figures Who Weren’t Actually All Bad

Here's something you might have noticed this week: it's not easy being a popular figure in power. Authority and the quest for it brings tremendous responsibility, and many fall foul of the corrupt trappings of power once they've worked their way to the top.

Wrestling would find out that fans the world over could identify with this conundrum, and the horrible boss would become quite the money-spinner. In 1996, Eric Bischoff revealed himself to to be in league with the New World Order, adding an huge new dimension to the rogue squadron, and Vince McMahon suddenly found himself the hottest heel in the industry after making a very nasty decision at the expense of hero-to-millions Bret Hart at Survivor Series 1997.

Since then though, we've had nearly 20 years of attempted retreads of those two success stories, with greatly diminishing returns. The heel authority/renegade babyface story limps on even to this day, when fewer and fewer fans seem to place high stakes in the conflict.

So it's refreshing when some people take the reigns and actually try to be just nice, playing by the rules, being fair, helping to service the hopes and dreams of the fans and performers, rather than ruling with an iron fist the size of the one that used to hang above the SmackDown stage.

With that in mind, here are 10 Authority Figures That Weren't Actually All That Bad.

The President-elect of the United States of America (it really is happening...) probably couldn't have made it to his new job as Leader of the Free World (...) without all the lessons he learned in his historic one-week stint as owner of Monday Night Raw.

Learning from Vince McMahon's dictatorial errors, he presented Trump Raw as the ultimate show of love to WWE's paying customers. In fact, it was so giving, by the end of the night they weren't even paying - he gave the ENTIRE crowd a full refund just for showing up and enduring yet another horrendous Triple H/Randy Orton match (those in attendance at Wrestlemania XXV must have been livid with that one).

And it wasn't just those in attendance too. He used his wealth to bin off commercial breaks for the night, presenting an ad-free Raw so the viewer didn't have to miss a single resthold nor suffer that bit where the timbre in Michael Cole's voice changes when he's throwing to the break. What a guy!

Vince, realising what a money-burning fool he'd been, immediately bought Raw back for double what he sold it for, as The Donald again works a masterclass in the Art of the Deal, winning both the hearts of the public and somehow pretending as if he'd stuck one in the eye of the establishment. Good job this sort of caper only goes on in a wrestling show eh?!