Yesterday July 23rd, 2022, will go down the day in wrestling history as the day that Vince McMahon said goodbye. Announced on his twitter Vince McMahon that he has officially retired from the WWE. At the time McMahon had stepped as CEO due to allegations that surface about him paying off former employees that he had a sexual relationship with. While Stephanie McMahon has stepped in interim CEO it was reported that Vince was still involved in creative. Now he is done with it all.
Love him or hate him, Vince McMahon will go down in history as the greatest promoter wrestling has ever seen. After taking over the company from his father Vince J. McMahon, who was the owner of the WWWF. After learning the business, he and his wife Linda took a successful regional territory to a global empire.
His rise to the top of the business was never easy but the man had a vision. He is credited with destroying the territories as he was the main promoter who decided to expand nationally. That was a break in tradition and the unwritten rules of the wrestling business. The thing was that Vince was a visionary who understood that with the rise of cable television these wrestling shows wouldn’t be contained by the local TV markets.
He has seen the business change from one that the TV program was used as a promo tool to get people in the arena. Then one where it was about the PPV buys, and now the television product is the major commodity that the rights are sold to the network. Whether he was the forefront or had to adapt to the times the WWF and now WWE has been the company in professional wrestling.
The man who is responsible for creating Wrestlemania is no longer going to be a part of the business in a day-to-day fashion. But whether is the XFL, the WWE Network or WWE Films, Vince has been at the forefront of the growth of the business and helped expand our minds to what it could be.
