Vince McMahon never knew his father growing up, only meeting him for the first time at 12 where he started living with him. His father was a wrestling promoter and Vince quickly became enamoured with the business, wanting to become a competitor. His father stopped him from wrestling did allow Vince to do on air interviews and announcing. He eventually got his own ideas about how to run a wrestling promotion and when he took over raided all of the major wrestling territories for their marquee names, often with no idea what to do with them. The talent raid made the WWE the biggest wrestling promotion on the planet and sent a lot of the territories out of business. As a result, McMahon became a hated by some traditional wrestling fans and promoters.
His company was threatened numerous times, firstly by a steroid scandal in the early 90s, then by strong competition from WCW in the mid to late 90s, and general indifference earlier this decade, but every time Vince has been able to rise above the circumstances, and recover.
And surprisingly it's all covered, some of it superficially, some of it in depth, in this excellent and entertaining disc. McMahon comes across as an arrogant unapologetic ass, but is somehow endearing in spite of himself, and it's difficult not to cheer him on as he recounts disciplining talent, taking on WCW or rubbing his success in the faces of his enemies.
And you can't help but admire this guy who goes out and takes chair shots, legit punches and kicks, just for the heck of it, because it's entertaining.
It really is brilliant viewing. No doubt with a heavy PR slant in some places.
Also included are some of Vince's wrestling matches, including a match with Steve Austin from RAW in 1998 that never quite happened.
We get to relive McMahon flying off the cage at the hands of Stone Cold at St Valentine's Day Massacre in 1999, a rather contrived, but still entertaining, handicap ladder match where Vince and his son Shane go against Steve Austin, a very well done and entertaining No Holds Barred match with Triple H from Armageddon 1999, a bloody and absorbing street fight against Shane McMahon from Wrestlemania X-7, a rather unremarkable street fight with Ric Flair from the 2002 Royal Rumble, an entertaining bout with Hulk Hogan from Wrestlemania 19, a passable match with his daughter Stephanie at No Mercy 2003 and then a bloody Buried Alive match with THe Undertaker at Survivor Series 2003.
A great DVD with two strong discs, well worth a look.
His company was threatened numerous times, firstly by a steroid scandal in the early 90s, then by strong competition from WCW in the mid to late 90s, and general indifference earlier this decade, but every time Vince has been able to rise above the circumstances, and recover.
And surprisingly it's all covered, some of it superficially, some of it in depth, in this excellent and entertaining disc. McMahon comes across as an arrogant unapologetic ass, but is somehow endearing in spite of himself, and it's difficult not to cheer him on as he recounts disciplining talent, taking on WCW or rubbing his success in the faces of his enemies.
And you can't help but admire this guy who goes out and takes chair shots, legit punches and kicks, just for the heck of it, because it's entertaining.
It really is brilliant viewing. No doubt with a heavy PR slant in some places.
Also included are some of Vince's wrestling matches, including a match with Steve Austin from RAW in 1998 that never quite happened.
We get to relive McMahon flying off the cage at the hands of Stone Cold at St Valentine's Day Massacre in 1999, a rather contrived, but still entertaining, handicap ladder match where Vince and his son Shane go against Steve Austin, a very well done and entertaining No Holds Barred match with Triple H from Armageddon 1999, a bloody and absorbing street fight against Shane McMahon from Wrestlemania X-7, a rather unremarkable street fight with Ric Flair from the 2002 Royal Rumble, an entertaining bout with Hulk Hogan from Wrestlemania 19, a passable match with his daughter Stephanie at No Mercy 2003 and then a bloody Buried Alive match with THe Undertaker at Survivor Series 2003.
A great DVD with two strong discs, well worth a look.