OT - Mr. McMahon

[slesh]

Holy balls this was an incredible docuseries. I’m 38 and grew up on WWF and WCW. Back in the early 90s my grandfather’s company sponsored the Miami Arena so our family had a box and courtside seats for all events. I remember my dad taking me to the 1991 Royal Rumble to see Hulk Hogan - I was 5 years old and couldn’t get enough. I also have vivid memories in middle school when WCW overtook WWF when Bischoff poached Hulk and they started the NWO with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. This is all in the doc. Vince was a fucking maniac in the most entertaining way. I highly recommend y’all check it out.

 

[pupu]

On Netflix ?

 

[Heath82]

I was in high school when hulk and the nwo formed. To say it was huge is an understatement everyone had shirts

 

[thethinker48]

If cocaine was a human being with ambition, it would be be Vince McMahon

 

[bbxtreme]

I am not a fan of wrestling, but know many of them.

But I can honestly say I could not stop watching that documentary… like damn.

Vince is an animal and the most ruthless business person to live. “Savage” is the best way to describe that guy. LOL

 

[Samson250]

Its really good. It’s not 100% focused on Vince and a fun walk down wrestling memory lane. So many little things from 85 to 90 I’d completely forgotten about I kept texting my brother asking “Do you remember..” lol.

I’m surprised by how they covered the WCW/NWO era with such detail but I’m glad! My friends and I loved that storyline in our 20’s. Really good doc!

 

[danieltx]

It's definitely an entertaining watch but like professional wrestling it needs to be viewed purely as entertainment. It has a lot of bullshit and straight up lies, like Hulk Hogan saying he didn't know if Andre would work with him during the WrestleMania III match.

'Savage' is definitely a good way to describe McMahon and 'insane' would be equally as fitting. His line about Rita Chatterton and the statute of limitations being up shows just how oblivious he is to the real world.

 

[Samson250]

Raise your hand if you watched Wrestlemania 3 on PayPerView live!

God I’m old. Lol

 

[Beaver24]

Great watch.

 

[pupu]

Raise your hand if you watched Wrestlemania 3 on PayPerView live!

God I’m old. Lol

 

[nothuman]

I’m almost finished with it. It’s better than I expected. Lots of things in the documentary that I didn’t know about. I hate to sound like an old head but I preferred WWE/WCW back then because there was still an illusion that it could be real. You knew it wasn’t, but for some reason, you were in denial about it.

Now the wrestlers are all on social media and posting as normal people separate from their characters on television. Also it looks like none of them take steroids anymore, which is lame as fuck. Bring back the Scott Steiner’s, Lex Luger’s, Buff Bagwell’s!

 

[thethinker48]

I’m almost finished with it. It’s better than I expected. Lots of things in the documentary that I didn’t know about. I hate to sound like an old head but I preferred WWE/WCW back then because there was still an illusion that it could be real. You knew it wasn’t, but for some reason, you were in denial about it.

Now the wrestlers are all on social media and posting as normal people separate from their characters on television. Also it looks like none of them take steroids anymore, which is lame as fuck. Bring back the Scott Steiner’s, Lex Luger’s, Buff Bagwell’s!

You don't know that, you don't live with them~ Fleezy

jk lol

 

[MonkeyBoy]

Going to watch it this week. I have heard its very good, even if you are not into wrestling.

 

[Reno911]

For those that remember: "Wrestlemania II, what the world is coming to!"

I old and lucky enough to remember territory wrestling. It was awesome and the guys would move around territories and you could get other territories on Cable TV. When Vince went national, it ruined everything and essentially ruined wrestling.

I will get around to watching this but the old lady keeps vetoing it. LOL

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[Samson250]

Going to watch it this week. I have heard it’s very good, even if you are not into wrestling.

If you’re not into wrestling you should skip it and watch a porno or something because this is 6 hours all about wrestling lol.


(Rip Lucian)

 

[slesh]

For those that remember: "Wrestlemania II, what the world is coming to!"

I old and lucky enough to remember territory wrestling. It was awesome and the guys would move around territories and you could get other territories on Cable TV. When Vince went national, it ruined everything and essentially ruined wrestling.

I will get around to watching this but the old lady keeps vetoing it. LOL

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I would argue he saved wrestling or at least is the major factor in it becoming more mainstream. No way wrestling survives today as a regional territory sport.

 

[danieltx]

I would argue he saved wrestling or at least is the major factor in it becoming more mainstream. No way wrestling survives today as a regional territory sport.

Territorial wrestling was shit when it came to a TV product and wouldn't have made it past the early 1990s as the pace of entertainment, television, and society as a whole accelerated. Nobody wants to watch 100 people in a TV studio with bad lighting and a set where you can see production staff unless that's all you've ever known. McMahon made professional wrestling into a billion dollar industry, created thousands of jobs, and had a great mind for TV production until about 2005. Paul Levesque is doing an excellent job in his place as we all expected he would - WWE was hotter this year than at any point since the late 1990s.

When I see what Billy Corgan is doing with the NWA in 2024 I just shake my head at how out of touch he is.

 

[lookslikesausage]

I feel very lucky to have grown up watching the Monday Night Wars and Attitude Era. I actually loved WCW in the early 90's too but it was very PG and cheesy. Vince was certainly an innovator. I remember when Hogan dropped the strap to the Undertaker and it was huge and shocking to young me at the time b/c Undertaker wasn't quite a huge name just yet and Hogan rarely put someone over. Later I remember watching the first Monday Night Raw on the USA channel and WWF programming was really pushing their Icopro supplement line (Vince was trying to get the WBF off the ground & his federal case was under way although soon to be over).

One thing I found ironic though, is how he poached wrestlers from all of the territories in the early and mid 80's and then when a few of his big names like Lex Luger bounced, he was upset because he thought they had a "handshake agreement". Did he forget how he snatched up the best talent in the country to get the WWF rolling?

Stone Cold vs. Mr. McMahon was one of the greatest angles ever IMO. Stone Cold was probably the biggest thing in wrestling in my lifetime. Even people who weren't wrestling knew about him. I got to meet him and he was exactly as you'd expect. That same day I also met Francine of ECW fame and she was at that time, probably the hottest most gorgeous woman I'd ever seen in person.

Overall, I didn't find anything too shocking in the documentary but that's because all of the "dirt" was familiar to me but unless you're a nerd with it, I'm sure there will be some shock value.

 

[hawkmoon]

After listening to the Behind the Bastards four part podcast on him I'm looking forward to watching this one.

 

[Barbell-king SC]

Holy balls this was an incredible docuseries. I’m 38 and grew up on WWF and WCW. Back in the early 90s my grandfather’s company sponsored the Miami Arena so our family had a box and courtside seats for all events. I remember my dad taking me to the 1991 Royal Rumble to see Hulk Hogan - I was 5 years old and couldn’t get enough. I also have vivid memories in middle school when WCW overtook WWF when Bischoff poached Hulk and they started the NWO with Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. This is all in the doc. Vince was a fucking maniac in the most entertaining way. I highly recommend y’all check it out.

Awesome fucking series in the middle of it now