10 Biggest Vince McMahon Controversies
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- Following his retirement, we look back at the 10 biggest controversies and scandals involving former WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon.
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Vince is living proof that with enough money you can get away with a whole hell of a lot.
yeah its great suckit poors
Lol true 😂
For real and these are just the things we know about so far that was brought to light no telling what else Vince has done
Maybe not anymore
Tate
Well... This needs updating
In addition to the last one, there's the scandal involving Ashley Massaro that came out before her passing
Now that one was really sad
If there’s a part 2 of this list this should be on it
@@Docwilson91 It's Vince McMahon you can malke a weekly top 10 Of his bad actions for the 12 next years lol
That one should have been number one and it's not even remotely close. Disgusting.
Edit: To clarify, what was done to her is the disgusting part, the fact it's not even here is just plain sad and very disappointing. I expected more from you on this particular one.
I had stopped watching wrestling years before she made her debut. I had no clue who she was. I just recently watched a video about her & her story. I almost literally cried. My heart was breaking to hear what that poor woman went through! Makes me furious how things like that can be hushed!
Vince showing up to court in a neck brace was hysterical.
I still laugh everytime. It's cartoon levels of villainy!
* 10 biggest vince mcmahon controversies... so far
I think this needs an update
Glad y’all put the Snuka one on here, totally messed up!
While I will always agree that Owen Harts murder will always be the most criminally negligent act on the part of Vince, the injustice caused upon the poor woman that Snuka beat to death is enough reason to hate McMahon as a human being.
@@Kleetus_Van_Damm absolutely! That Dark Side of the Ring episode opened my eyes to a lot.
@@mikeawesome9212 lol I love how you assume it’s because what I heard on a show only. The man in charge of setting up the wires and the release mechanism for the stunt WAS NOT A PROFESSIONAL!! Vince McMahon didn’t immediately end Over the Edge 99, which was criminal, also did not make sure that the person in charge of that idiotic stunt was trained or even knew what they were doing.
@@mikeawesome9212 defend McMahon all you want, he’s still had to resign from his own company and if you don’t think board members pressured him to avoid losing stock value, you’re a bigger dipshit than all of us.
Yeah, especially since it took almost 40 years to bring charges and there was no trial or conviction.
Things need to be proven before they can be viewed as fact.
I have no opinion about guilt or innocence. It's not my job. That's why it's always best to defer, to those who have evidence and the skills, to make decisions.
Thank you.
He knew his only option was to walk away from WWE. It doesn't survive otherwise.
Vince screwed Vince this time
he screwed him self in the 90's too. Bret couldnt leave with the belt. Its just a lie Vince tells and wwe dick suckers believe.... cause lets face it.... wwe fans are truly awful people.
The messed up thing is this is the 10 BIGGEST scandals ... not remotely close to the full list.
the messed up thing is that half of these are not scandals or controversies as the title said
1:53 this aged well
You have to be a real piece of work when a hush money scandal isn't even in the top 5 shittiest things you have done.
Think about it: His dad owned the company for almost 30 years before Vince bought it from him, and all of those years were scandal-free. Vince owned WWF/WWE for almost 40 years, and just a few years after he bought it Vince was embroiled in multiple scandals. He may have been a marketing genius, but he also just might be a truly shitty human being.
Well at the time this video was made the Hush money was just from a Consensual affair. It evolved into MUCH worse
Many women lie and it’s easier to pay them off to not extort or defame someone rich.
So I don’t doubt that most accusations were lies.
Very surprised Vince didn't try to push a talent called "Miss Conduct"
With her tag team partner Miss Behaving...
@@elc1960 Do they feud with Ms. Understanding?
He would have tried to sleep with her though so
@@Speedyreedy1218 No, actually they kinda go hand in hand...often Ms. Understanding leads directly to Miss Behaving and Miss Conduct...
@@elc1960 so...Ms. Informed and Ms. Appropriation of Funds are their rivals?
This is going to be a Darkside of the Ring episode someday.
Chris Jericho is going TO LOVE narrating that episode
Should be a whole season, really..
Episodes gonna need several for his skeletons in the cupboard.
Bobby talbert
You managed to narrow it down to JUST ten??
If they did a list ranking all of Vince's scandals it could rival their "Every WrestleMania match ever" video in length.
He dodged many bullets way too many times.
Fortunately it looks like this one was a kill shot so to speak
When you're rich and powerful, you can dodge bullets like Neo in The Matrix.
The question is…..for how long? Or should I say, how much longer?
@@jamiemiller1482 not really he is still the majority owner of the company
I always figured he didn't know much at first and found out a couple of hours later. If you can find video of the tribute show, you'll notice how in the first couple of hours, the commentators repeatedly talk about what a great person Benoit was and laud what a great family man he was. Then in the third hour, you start hearing them only talking about what a good worker he was. Nothing about him having been a great person.
I’m not sure when they learned what had happened with Benoit but it’s been pretty well established they didn’t learn of the full extent of what had occurred until later on. People should always keep in mind they didn’t even discover that they’d all died until 4:14 PM and their show went on at 7. The details definitely weren’t fully known for a period of time if it’s simply kept in mind that it was less than three hours prior to the show starting that it wss even discovered people had died much less the specifics being released.
@@Matt-cr4vv That's true. I do remember they did know for sure by around midnight that night because it was being reported on the various wrestling news sites that it was a probable murder-suicide. Figuring how long it takes for the sources to come through, that's why I always figured it was somewhere around the third hour of the show when they started to find out.
the benoit thing wasn't his fault
Don’t waste your breath. This channel is way to left to think critical
Benoit didn’t do it.
Well number 10 just ROCKETED to the top of this list.....
Vice could dedicate a whole series of Dark Side episodes solely based round the indiscretions of one Vincent Kennedy McMahon
As much as Vince was apart of my childhood, as an adult I realize how dirty his hands really got to stay at the top. The man is The Godfather of wrestling entertainment, he’ll go to the grave with a treasure trove of secrets.
I stopped watching wrestling around 2000/01. I had no clue who Ashley Massaro was. I just recently watched a documentary about her. My heart absolutely shattered! NO ONE should ever go through that kind of trauma! Much less being silenced about & left to deal with it on her own. R.I.P Ashley! I'm so sorry for what you went through!
Yeah, that's one of the worst things this company ever did. Can't prove the incident reached Vince, but the one who got her to stay quiet was definitely someone who had Vince's ear and had a lot of pull. That affidavit was very hard to read.
Vince’s spawn Bobby talbert is the poster boy for celebrity sacrifices. Look at his IMDb.
Vince had the benefit of making his billions in an era without the internet. These days, as soon as first blood is drawn, internet backlash just opens deeper and deeper wounds. That's all *without* mentioning that he has the FBI on his ass this time.
This is the 2nd time that the Feds have investigated him..they mentioned the steroids scandal
Not just without the Internet, but without general social media to spread the fire all over. And not just Vince, either. As a video game fan, I consider the crap going on with Activision as the turning point when it came to trust of companies, though other companies, VG or not, also had their own scandals exposed around then. The Activision employees actually UNIONIZED and the company was federally investigated. I think people started to realize "the nerds might be right".
And don’t even get me started on Blizzard.
The worst thing about the Owen Hart situation was that it has since come out that it would've cost the company $5,000 to make sure that Owen was safe to perform the stunt. A then-multi-million dollar company refused decided that $5,000 was not worth protecting one of their best, most beloved, and respected talents. Absolutely reprehensible.
Sources, for this bombshell information.
A link, or information source, just to confirm your words are true.
Thank you.
@@Pocketrocket-pj1us Martha Hart's book goes into good detail about WWE's negligence.
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I know a new one for the list
Only one? Hahah
You just made the list😂
Okay, I think the Benoit one was unfair. No one knew what was going on when he did the tribute. If Benoit hadn't been a murderer it would have been a very good move.
Who’s came back to this video after another scandal broke out about good old Vince?
He may not have paid hush money to her, but Vince had an affair with his former personal secretary Emily Feinberg a little bit before the WWF steroid scandal came to light. She was a former Playboy Playmate (June 1988, under her maiden name of Emily Arth), and she ended up being a witness for the prosecution in that trial.
So she was a prostitute and liar extorting Vince for money.
I’m not gone lie…….
YOU DESERVE IT
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
So....this list might need updating
Interested to see what Big Trips does with the creative direction now he's in charge.
What's he going to do? Absolutely nothing different
@@filthiestfish Not tear up the script 5 minutes before the show starts every week, probably?
@@DeanMoxley87 did you not see any of nxt it was the best wrestling around when he had complete power, it was so good aew copied it
Nothing changes being everyone in place is directly related to VM or has been in his circle for decades. This is nothing more than a way of creating a fluff between Vince and the company on paper....
If he does it anything like he did with NXT then it should be great
I feel bad for Roddy Piper cause every time Pat Patterson get brung up he would get super uncomfortable.
Can someone explain to me this
@@juanaguirre6326 There is an urban legend that Patterson Molested Piper.
@@juanaguirre6326 there’s a lot of circumstantial evidence that Pat Patterson did something to Roddy when he was a teenager.
Except most people don't know that when Piper had a podcast not long before his death he stated that he was misunderstood in that interview about Patterson and Patterson never did anything abusive to him.
I was there the June 11th 2007 and it was Amazing. ALSO one of Benoits last match
Imagine being Konstantine Kyros trying to bring Vince down all these years with all this ammunition and when Vince FINALLY got taken down. The sigh of relief.
He is probably like 🤪😝😝😝😝
I hate how, for SO LONG, we as fans just ignored the afwul fucking things we knew about Vince
@@coltonwilkie241 If you support a man proven to be a literal scum of the earth then by all means, go ahead.
@@coltonwilkie241 lol no lol
@@coltonwilkie241 is half your brain missing?
It's the wrestling business nearly everybody done something awful at some point
Stopped watching long before- look at Bobby talbert’s imdb. Talk about a rapid rise in Hollywood after one gig (hit) for Vince. Back in school little bastard said Vince was his dad and he’d hook him up one day.
#10 raced to #1 in record time😂
I for one can't wait to see what will Triple H do since he's now the Head of Creative and Mr McMahon is retired 👌 🙌 👏 😍
Vince’s retirement is the biggest stunner he’s ever taken 🤣
On the Benoit tribute; If you watch the Darkside of the Ring episode about his death a lot of the people said they didn't know about the murders and what were they supposed to do given what they knew at the time. Just thought I mentioned that.
I tend to believe the theory Benoit didn't do it. Lots of information has come out over the years.
@@questioneverything4342 don't waste your life defending a murderer. You talk like you're a detective looking into its you're not , wake up.
@@questioneverything4342 benoits kid and Nancy should have tapped out. They'd still be here. The crossface is lethal apparently
@@ObliqueVisualsNz Tasteless and disgusting joke.
@@questioneverything4342 There's no other evidence that says that he didn't.
Got an update for you...
How'd he dodge all the bullets? One word: money.
@JGR4LIFE hope both of them get charged soon for there crimes, but i doubt it, rich white men get away with crime all the time
@JGR4LIFE Plus he's good friends WITH Trump, so he always had friends in very powerful places, especially now.
Did VKM ever visit Epstien's island?
It’s crazy to see that there are people actually defending Vince...
people also have defended fabulous mulah, some people are perfectly fine with monsters as long as the get their content,
Crazy how #10 is happening right now 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I find it really sad, the man literally gave me my childhood from WWE games on PS2 to Monday night raw and smackdown, stuck with wrestling when it was "lame and embarrassing" in high school and I just want to idolise the man that made it all possible. 9 bullets miss the man of scandal but the 10th finally got him and instead of being remembered as a hero he will be remembered as man mired in scandal
But I'm excited for the triple H era
When Vince dies finna get all his followers
How many McMahons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
None! The Lightbulb screwed the Lightbulb!!
This man really paid more for booty than he did when he bought WCW
Honestly as much as I don’t want to admit this I would do the same thing too.
Cultaholic is on fire with all this content
Rip owen hart
The fact there is at least 10 shows there’s clearly a problem with Vince. I’m excited to see if Triple H will do things better since I don’t see how he can do anything worse.
fuck 3h he.s ALL about himself
What, only 10?!
I bet it wasn’t easy only making a top 10 out of everything he’s done.
This proves that Vince has gotten away with alot of things for way too long. And it's about time he pay for it. I think he will.
Prison Time coming up soon!
@@SunshineStateCoasters he’s not going to jail money talks
@@josiahboatengmyrie while you may be right, I still think he deserves it.
@@josiahboatengmyrie but that is the exact reason he's in trouble right now. Using money to cover up the shitty things he has done in the past. He did it too many times and it caught up with him.
How'd that go? 😂
Bret Hart be like nowadays when he heard the hush money: "Vince screw Vince" 😅
Classic Vince logic. Have affairs with co-workers requiring you to pay $12M to keep it quiet instead of hiring escorts that would have cost 1% of that .
I appreciate Vinnie Wack for all the good decisions he’s made but he made so many bad ones that I’m just glad he’s finally gone. I finally got my wish. There’s no chance in hell that HHH can do any worse, especially being one of the top legends of AE, being the head of DX & Evolution and the success that he had with the black and gold (NXT) brand. I feel like if he can’t take over and turn things around then no one can.👍🏼👍🏼🔥🔥
It’s barely even a case of Vince McMahon act like he’s invincible, like Superman levels or even Neo levels of dodging bullets….but in the end of this time, this would be impossible for him to get out of this new scandal!!
9:00 I bet a lot more hidden scandals have also went to the grave with many of the wrestlers and backstage people who have since died. Go watch Roddy Piper's interview with Sean Oliver years ago when he talks about Pat Patterson to see what I mean. Shady AF
Probably should have mentioned how Vince sued Owen's widow after killing him with negligence.
Don't you mean she sued Vince?
@@DevilSurvivor69 She did, and rightly so. He then sued her for breaching the terms of her deceased husbands contract.
@@adamhigh9884 To be fair that was his lawyer’s idea not Vince’s
Wth?! This one I didn’t know. Why not just let it be after she lost Owen. Wow he just gets more and more despicable
@@ponokanaka He has karma
If the FBI comes for him, do you think Vince will relive the moment when Steve Austin had the gun to his head and Vince cried and whimpered and pissed his pants? Or maybe Vince has the corporate jet waiting on a runway somewhere, gassed up and ready for a trip to some undisclosed tropical location with access to some offshore bank accounts? I wonder...
It’s about time all the shitty things he’s done caught up to him ! Let’s see you try to pay your way out of this one Vinny
The bill was overdue, and eventually, you need to pay the devil what he’s owed.
The Ashley Massaro story may be worst then all of this
That’s not been proven just internet talk and it was a member of the military and Vince and the military payed her off to
Keep quite
I cried when I heard her story! Absolutely appalling how she was abused n nothing was done about it! Plain wrong!
Whenever people get upset over those celebrating his retirement, I get sick to my stomach. They care more about a billionaire than the countless of victims that were abused by/because of him.
1:25
Did you just make a CAW Character, named
Miss Conduct or
Ms. Conduct if it sounds better.
Either way, I do know Lita, was Miss Congeniality, in ECW but I'm not sure about the first 2.
Good job...me ;)
Paul Hayman explained it best: Vince is a man that will do, say and green light anything which will make him the most money.
Hush money in the bank sounds like a great PPV
Vince: "It's been a tough few years, but at least things can't get any worse......"
The amount of promoters he bought on then just stopped paying once he'd taken over is crazy too... Also threatening to take Wrestlemainia away from any companies that ran Jim Crockett's PPVs, it led to Turner buying WCW and the next few years under Jim Herd (just abysmal wrestling booking) and finally to the Attitude era, I'd love to see how Crockett would have fared in that period.
I'm sure there's enough for another top 10
6:30
Vince surely did have the answers. Bobby talbert’s imdb tells the story. Vince’s illegitimate kid (not hornswaggle) used to brag Vince would hook him up.
Maybe this is a case of you can't see the forest through the trees, but I don't know why they didn't book Taker to be the bridge champion between Hart and Michaels. Respected by all, believable, a team player.
I think I know what number one is
Great video lads!
Vince is like school on Saturdays…..no class
Imagine Vince in breakfast club.
You're gonna need a bigger list...
A good friend of mine who was a very handsome All-State high school champion at several sports want with me once to go see the local matches in 1982 for Central States Wrestling while Terry Garvin was there as ring announcer. Terry come over to talk with us (I was a weekly regular) and offered to train my friend and give him a job in Central States paying $30,000 a year. First time he'd meet him! Garvin got his phone number and would call him every week for months to see if he wanted the job or to just go with him on the road for a bit to see if he would like to be a pro wrestler.
My dad warned me to tell my friend he thought that Terry might be trying to get with him and not to trust him.
Dad, you were a smart man.
Your dad was indeed wise. I truly believe Jimmy Garvin could tell you a lot of stories about Terry. In the '70s he was manager of the Garvin brothers tag team with Terry and Ronnie Garvin, and I bet he has all sorts of disgusting stories about Terry, some likely even far worse than the ones about the ring boys.
I thank Vinny for a huge chunk of my childhood, but he really was the p.o.s ‘Mr McMahon’ in real life
ok about the Benoit double murder homicide at the time they didn't know what truly happened, and yes the could of waited a bit they didn't think one of their top and respected at the time stars would do something like that
Man between the concussions and roids, im not sure all the blame can be placed squarely on Chris, and even if thats not the case, it doesn't change the fact that many of the stars and employees of the WWE were close with him and lost a dear friend and that friend's family in a horrible way.
This did not age well lmao 😂😂
At ALLL😊
The video was pretty entertaining. I have a hard time hearing and reading about scandals though - if someone has money, they will get away with what they did; this makes their scandal’s pointless. We live in a fucked up world, and I hate acknowledging it by seeing what people get away with.
On the Pre Show before Over The Edge (Sunday Night Heat?)
Vince can CLEARLY be seen looking up towards the rafters over an hour before Over The Edge and Owen's fall
If that ain't telling, then I don't know what is
lmao his fake death was genius, they even had it on the news to.. I definitely know people would have been much more sad knowing they won't see him stunnered again
Vince McMahon once said his favorite moment of acting in the WWE was when he dropped the N-bomb to John Cena in front of Booker T
When wrestling fans try to use a line graph. If WWE stock had dipped that much, a lot more people would remember that story. It dipped a few percent.
I don't agree with benoit one
He came to knew this after investigation
He pulled away all his matches and mentions afterwards
3:30
Amazing how long it's been, since this seminal event in Wrestling history BUT
Historians will explain, that it was not the first time something like this had happened in Quebec!!
Dubbed the Original SCREWJOB and ignoring Wendy Richter, getting screwed after WM1.
You should be able to get info from Eric Leprade's book and the internet. I read the book 15 years ago but I think it was called 'Mad dogs, Midgets and Screwjobs' it's a great read for any wrestling historian!
Cheers from Montreal Canada
here's a strange pill to for everyone swallow. About the Chris Benoit tragedy. Billy Jack Haynes went on record to say, that the reason Chris killed Danny and Nancy, was due to him finding out that Vince K was Danny's real father. Talk about strange. I used to think Billy Jack was nuts, but not so much now.
The ring boy story actually made it to Phil Donahue there is an episode of it on CZcams
Vince, always is in control of the narrative. Its amazing.
Thanks 🙏
Growing up is realizing Bret screwed Bret he’s a baby
He continues to whine about Goldberg kicking him in the head (while he continued to wrestle), & also Hulk Hogan not putting him over 30 years ago.
11. His facelifts.
In my country (Perú) there was a president in power for all the 90's that did some good thing (because it was his fucking job anyway) but there were more bad things he did and tell his most trustfully people to do, that he is finally in "jail" (in quotation because you know the kind of prison time the corrupt and powerful people really have) he has blood and money in his hands but there are people that keep saying stupid things like "thanks to him, we have ingernet now", "he ended terrorism" and shit like that but just because he used to "buy" tv channels, newspapers and famous people in the showbiz to talk good about him in those times... For me it's the same, i don't care about his childhood, don't care how hard he got his life to be, no matter how many good things he "did" for wrestling, he is still a piece of shit to me, so i hope he never comes back (but i suppose people are gona cheer for him anyways) and let this be a true change in wwe bookings and the way they treat their workers
Well said. You nailed it!
3:10 It wasn't his last night, Bret's contract went into December.
Wait a sec...are you...whoa...clearly this video is the tip of the iceberg....apparently Vince enjoys...ahem...not only logging out on simply computers!!!
Controversy maybe creates cash, but scandals end careers and tarnish legacies.
Topical indeed!
Vince mcmahon is one of kind
To think about it feels like
Employee revolted with the owner and creator of their company due to his illegal activities
Bret screwed Bret; He was an employee, was given instructions and refused to follow them. Regardless of his offer to drop the belt to someone else, it's not up to him.