15 Things We Learned From Vince McMahon's Docuseries On Netflix
12. The Hypocrisy On WCW Is Fierce
There's a healthy chunk of several episodes given to Eric Bischoff turning WCW's fortunes around and booting McMahon squarely in the nuts for 83 long weeks. Nitro was a Raw-beater between 1996-1998, but this is typically palmed off as Ted Turner "opening his cheque book" to lure WWF creations like Hogan, Randy Savage and Lex Luger away.
At this point, Netflix threatens to turn their series into a biased production WWE Network would be proud of.
Vince moans and bleats about building those stars for years only to lose them 'cause 'Billionaire Ted' had serious cash. That's how promoters in the old territory days must've felt when McMahon began hoovering up their stars in the mid-80s. There’s no acknowledgement of that from WWE's side, but Eric Bischoff and Dave Meltzer point it out.
In fact, Vince claims WCW was “stealing” and comes across like he’s talking utter nonsense when confronted by producers. “What I say a lot of times is totally different to what I think, and the public doesn’t understand that sometimes”. What? The truth is that McMahon just didn’t like that Turner was doing to him what he’d done to others.
It’s pretty inescapable.