10 WWE Authority Figures Who Weren’t Actually All Bad
3. Jack Tunney
A lot of fans' first introduction to a wrestling 'boss', Jack Tunney looked exactly like every boss we were told to imagine as kids. He was pitched perfectly, with his stoic expression, an old set of shoulders, and generally finding himself trapped in a stuffy office away from the actual hustle and bustle of the company he was charged with overseeing.
Furthermore, whilst not exactly bringing much pizzazz to proceedings, he was simply a believable administrator, only interjecting in combat matters when it was felt an authoritative hand was needed. This just made so much sense - in this era of endless power struggles for control and ownership, there was a time when wrestlers just used to fight each other because it was their job, not because somebody told them to on live TV first.
Heels threw corruption charges at him all the time of course, most hilariously evidenced by a seething Sid Justice at a pre-WrestleMania VIII press conference, but fans were always given sound rationale for his rulings, even if Tunney himself wasn't exactly Ric Flair in delivering the news.
Retirement came for President Jack in the 1995, but as a legitimately respected figurehead from the huge '80s boom period, he remains a firm favourite of fans from the time.