10 Shocking Revelations From Mr. McMahon Netflix Documentary

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Four years, a retirement, a return, a federal investigation, a lawsuit and a resignation after it was first announced, the Mr. McMahon Netflix series is six hours long, comprised of over a hundred hours of interviews with Vince, his family and colleagues. 

The majority of those interviews, including with Vince McMahon himself, took place before the Wall Street Journal broke news of the sexual misconduct allegations against him.

As a result, there are no new revelations from him directly about those cases, so they won’t be featuring in this list. 

But there are plenty of other fascinating insights into Vince McMahon as a person. Like how being the most ruthless businessman the wrestling industry has ever seen means you never stop working.

These are the 10 most shocking revelations from Netflix’s Mr. McMahon docuseries.

1. Vince Admits To Hypocrisy

I’m going to start with an exchange during Episode 3, where Vince McMahon spoke about WCW’s predatory business practices, and how they were stealing all of WWF’s top stars. At the time, Vince framed himself and the WWF as the sympathetic, small family run business against the evil billionaire Ted Turner.

But stealing all of your rivals’ top stars because you had more money is exactly what Vince did back in 1984 during his national expansion, killing the territory system. 

When confronted with this, Vince explained the difference between how he is in the right, and Ted is in the wrong.

“Ted’s philosophy was let’s go hurt, let’s go hurt our competitor. And that’s not mine. I want to go compete.”

The interviewer then points out you could see Turner as competing though, to which Vince agrees. The interviewer points out that’s a contradiction, and Vince replies:

“Some might think it might be hypocritical to say, ok, I don’t hurt someone else, I just do what’s best for me. Yet when someone comes after me, I don’t think they have the right – sure they have the right. What I say a lot of the time is totally different to what I think. And the public doesn’t understand that sometimes. As a businessman, you have to throw things out there that’s not really the way you feel, but it controls thought-process by doing that.”

It sure sounds like Vince is admitting to saying things he doesn’t believe, which some other people call ‘lying’, and then blames us for not understanding. 

Therefore, by Vince’s own instruction, we should not take at face value anything that he says. Please keep this in mind for the rest of the entries, as they’re mostly from Vince’s interviews in the show.

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