The Fall Of The McMahon Family In WWE

CHAPTER ONE: MARKING THE TERRITORY

The show was a hit, and it got Vincent a Capitol Wrestling TV deal for a weekly two hour live event, broadcast in 11 states.

Capitol Wrestling would become affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance – a collection of powerful wrestling promotions across the country, who shared a singular world champion.

And it was around this time Vincent reconciled with the 12 year old son he had left when he was just a few months old.

Despite somehow managing to create a near monopoly within the NWA’s monopoly – with Vincent and Toots controlling almost 70% of the organisation’s booking decisions – them and the CWC broke away when their top star Buddy Rodgers was booked to lose the NWA World Heavyweight Championship to Lou Thesz. 

Despite losing the belt, Vincent and Toots kept promoting Rodgers at the NWA champion, until they awarded him the inaugural belt of the CWC’s rebrand: The World Wide Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Championship. Aka, the WWWF.

They rejoined the NWA in 1971, and by 1979, they dropped the Wide from their name – making the far easier to say World Wrestling Federation, or WWF.

A rebranding that was the idea of that son he reconciled with 25 years before… who was also called Vince.

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