7 Deadly Wrestling Sins (And Who Committed Them)
4. Wrath: Vince McMahon
Vince McMahon is an overgrown toddler with a wild temper.
When something disagrees with him, he will tell that something to f*ck off, pal. When a wrestler commits a minor transgression, even when it's something they don't know not to do, or something they were allowed to do a week prior, Vince in petulant response will bury them onscreen.
His anger cannot be contained. He'll sit there, in his office, and if he's not been sufficiently fed and watered will reject any and all creative ideas, not that too many make it to his desk because his fleet of independent contractors are too sh*t-scared to even talk to him. They know better. They know that, if an overdone steak smothered in ketchup has not passed through his gullet, he will scream and holler and if they are lucky, he will grow so apoplectic with fury that he will involuntarily sh*t himself and then laugh hysterically and lighten his mood. This has never happened. Instead of voiding his bowels, Vince will instead dispatch two giant ar*eholes to beat f*ck out of a broadcast professional if they did not fancy calling simulated fights in a war zone.
Miro had the temerity to seek outside work having been fired, and conspicuously, his wife Lana was smashed through a table every week thereafter. That she was smashed through all those tables by Nia Jax, and still didn't suffer a serious injury, was a statistical miracle. Vince's most lethal assassin somehow escaped punishment herself.
When Dean Ambrose left, who it should be noted worked more matches than any of his peers at the peak of his singles run, he was threatened with a burial at the hands of - yes! - Nia Jax, to whom he offered a sacrifice in exchange for her ungodly power.
A house show match was scheduled, but was scrapped when Vince was self-aware enough to realise that he was going to make Ambrose look like the wronged party. His actual exit was among the most warmhearted farewells ever extended to an outbound WWE star - and still, Vince's first instinct was to make him look bad.