Vince McMahon's 10 Biggest Successes

After the controversial and uninspired finishes of Money In The Bank 2017, has Vince McMahon filed for creative bankruptcy?

Not since Royal Rumble 2015 have fans flooded social media with such invective about a WWE pay-per-view. Perhaps if the company hadn’t marketed the annual ladder match spectacle as “historic,” expectations wouldn’t have been so high. But when that “historic” moment was tarnished as James Ellsworth retrieved the magical briefcase for his bae Carmella, the internet erupted.

Critics lambasted the booking of the first women’s Money in the Bank as sexist, misogynistic, disgusting and a joke. They argued that having a man win the match for his woman undermined the credibility of the entire division as well as the supposed women’s revolution. Mind-boggling decisions followed for the rest of the night as a great tag team bout ended in a cheap count-out, perennial jobbers The Ascension were the payoff to a fun mystery angle, and Jinder Mahal retained the WWE Title in almost the same match that he won it last month.

When fans look to next month’s PPV for redemption, they’re reminded to turn back the clock to 1957 for WWE Great Balls of Fire.

It seems like Vinnie Mac is permanently out of touch, a disappointing final chapter for pro wrestling’s greatest promoter.

You’re probably surprised that old man McMahon has had any positive effect on NXT. After all, numerous members of the developmental brand (Bayley, The Ascension, Adam Rose, Bo Dallas, etc.) have had their popularity destroyed once they graduated to the main roster.

However, Triple H credits his father-in-law for the concept of NXT TakeOver, a quarterly live supershow during the weekend of WWE’s Big 4 PPVs that often surpasses the main roster's efforts.

“Why don’t you look at doing a show that weekend,” Triple H recalls in NXT: The Future Is Now. “We have all those fans in that weekend, and NXT will be a big part of Fan Axxess, but why don’t we see how it will do with a show of its own.”