Vince McMahon's 10 Biggest Failures
6. No Holds Barred
I
should mention that a few of these have been explored on the hilarious,
addictive, uber-entertaining Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard podcast.
When you’re done reading this, you should definitely check out the No Holds
Barred episode in particular, because Prichard’s impressions of McMahon are
amazing.
This
1989 “blockbuster” was the precursor to WWE Films, and an attempt to capitalize
on Hulk Hogan’s Hollywood-crossover appeal. McMahon served as executive
producer, financing the film and actually re-writing the script (with Hogan)
over three days. If you haven’t seen the movie, you don’t understand just how
funny that is.
The
film brought in $16,093,651 in total ticket sales, according to Box Office
Mojo. As for how much money McMahon lost, he once joked on Raw that “Hogan
promised me that if the movie lost money, he was going to return his salary. I
guess the check is still in the mail.”