12 WWE Booking Mistakes Vince McMahon Made Personally
10. Tom Magee
The year was 1986, and if you didn't think that Vince McMahon was already looking for someone to run as a top dog alongside Hulk Hogan only two years into Hogan's big run, you're wrong. If you thought that the guy that Vince always wanted to be that star was the Ultimate Warrior, then let me introduce you to Tom "MegaMan" Magee. At 6'5" 275 pounds of chiseled muscle, weightlifter Magee was already quite the top-name star in one industry. However, when Vince McMahon saw pictures of the upstart bodybuilder-turned-wrestler Magee in 1986, he immediately brought him into the WWF. By October 1986, Magee was having reputedly terrible house show matches with Bret Hart and Terry Gibbs, which Hart wrote in his autobiography, stunk the building out, with no fault due to the work of either Gibbs or Hart. Impressively, Tom Magee stuck around in the WWF until 1989 proving just how much Vince McMahon hates being wrong.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
