Wrestling Analytic 3: The pros and Cons of Vince Mcmahon (feel free to add)?

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VKM is a man the younger audience and WWE sheep sees as visonary and older fans find to be the seed of the devil for killing "their wrestling". Much like my last analytic, let us take a objective look at Vince Mcmahon. Feel free to add on any pro or con

Pros: The man's gambling in turning wrestling mainstream is certainly valiant and commendable, as not many outside the businessthought that an art the masses consider phony and hillbilly would ever sucees in mainstream. Whether you agree with the methods or not, no one can deny that Vince Mcmahon has led wrestling to heights that 30 years ago would have been squacked at. If you look at how huge wrestling has been, it is incredible when compared to pre Vince Mcmahon. The only "huge" days wrestling enjoyed pre Vince were the Gorgeous Geroge era.

Another pro of Vince is he is a master at connecting with the times. Mcmahon alligned himself with the popular Cyndi Lauper to get wrestling mainstream exposure to get coverage to wrestlemania and involvment with Mr T to give the foundation for success in his boldest move. The Attitude Era was genious in that Vince saw that he had the talent available to pull off the edgy product which he knew would succeed, as he knew edgy product was successful as demonstrated by the gangster rap rise 2 years pre attitude era and also the Jerry Springer show. Vince has been able to connect to today through the recent Punk Cena feud predicated on internet beliefs, the overkill of twitter which while really annoying to us purists does parallel the current world. It is also to note that Vince is a genious businessman/marketer, as his promotion of Hogan in particular was genious as was Austin. Of course Austin had amazing talent for the character and promo work, and Hogan had tons of charisma, but Vince done well in marketing these men. Vince is a wrestling leader who does realize that he needs new stars to keep him afloat which is something so many promoters don't, and Vince acquiring talent got him to the top, the manufacturing of new stars put him over the steroid era and WCW, transitioned him through the agression era, and as the building of recent WWE stars like Miz, Sheamous, Punk, Bryan and others occur, Vince is setting himself up for coming years as he has always done.

However, there is 2 sides of every coin, and Vince has his cons certainly. First and most dominant is the fact that yes, Vince did acquire the talent needed in the beginning by offering more money than anyone else to the territories' top wrestlers since he owned the New York Market and tv slots, but in doing this, he crippled businesses and killed the territory system. This was ok for years, but those effects are finally being fealt as now wrestlers for the last decade come often straight from wrestling camp or some half butt promotion, spend insufficent time in a rinky dink developmental place, than are thrusted into the light without the promo skill, crowd interraction, psychology or general skill needed to get over, and hence Vince is hurt and I predict will be real hurt in 10 years. Had vince kept the territories somewhat alive, he would still be the juggernaut, but have a well to go to for polished wrestlers to find a better success ratio.

Continuing with the theme of cons of Mcmahon, Vince also has through love of bodybuilding and the infamous steroid scandal injected a stereotypical image fans get over wrestling. I have outlined before in answers to previous questions the effects of this image on the business, and for character restraint wont outline all theme here, but Vince knows ladies love the look and kids love the big muscled "good guys" as they believe kayfabe, hence parents buy the merchandice of the bigmen and make Vince the most profit, which Vince must look at since WWE is ultimately an entertainment business that happens to have a wrestling backdrop. Hence as Vince goes for look over talent, countless talents like AJ Styles that COULD have a franchise built around them for the next decade are passd over for robotic huge Mason Ryans, and when they don't have the skills to get over, Vince has essentially shot himself in the foot.

Vince has also really given wrestling a media black eye for not only the image portrayed, but some really questionable storylines like the Katie Vick incident, his fake death, the London Bombing incident (though the Hassan character had huge potential for being a major major heel), and Mae Young giving birth to a hand to name a few instances.

Last con is that Vince's ego has prevented many a dream match from happening, in turn huge business money and exposure wise has been lost, and many great names like Muta and Sting have never stepped in a WWE ring because of mistrust over Vince. Vince has always fealt that anyone not a WWE manufactured superstar is inferior as seen by how he handeled the influx of good but misued talent after the WCW/ECW