9 Lessons Vince McMahon Should Have Learned From Ted Turner

5. Remember: It's Nothing Personal

McMahon has harped on a good deal in interviews over the last thirty years or so about his falling out with Ted Turner. Now, a lot of that sniping was kayfabed, and a lot was exaggerated in order to portray himself as the plucky underdog. It's not often that Vincent Kennedy McMahon gets to come from underneath, so to speak, so of course he milked it for all he was worth. It came from a very real place, however. McMahon clearly took the whole thing far more personally than he should have, in two ways. Firstly, in becoming quite personally aggrieved at Turner€™s actions and, secondly, in assuming that any of it was personally directed at him. Turner was, at that time, a multimedia mogul, and his purchase of JCP and transformation of it into WCW was a business decision, not a vindictive attack on the WWF. Not only that, but it represented one very, very small arm of his business. It was never personal. It was all business. When it came to Black Saturday, Turner only added Mid-South and Championship Wrestling programming to TBS when the new WWF shows attracted so many complaints. It was a decision made in response to consumer demand. Does anyone seriously imagine that Ted Turner cared about the complicated, self-involved politicking between rival wrestling promotions in 1984? He wouldn€™t become directly involved in the wrestling business for another four years. I doubt he personally gave Vincent Kennedy McMahon much thought at all during the entire Monday Night War era of wrestling. Well, he might have pitied him, but that's about it.