Vince McMahon: the Father of World Wrestling Federation

Titan Sports founder, inc. and current majority owner of WWE, Vince McMahon is the son of Vincent J. McMahon. In the year 1980 he founded Titan Sports and then went ahead to purchase the Capitol Wrestling Corporation from his father. McMahon is known for his versatility, he played different roles in one life such as a professional wrestler, an in-ring announcer, a play-by-play commentator and finally a producer. Currently he is serving as the Chairman and CEO of world famous WWE. It is his father flashed on wrestling as an entertainment than mere a sport.

McMahon went against his father’s will he began an expansion process that positively changed the sport and the new look of WWE is his invention. McMahon made other promoters furious by combining television shows to television stations. He even made WWF available in the areas outside the WWF’s traditional areas. Then further he commenced a distribution company named Coliseum Video to sell video tapes of WWF events outside Northeast region. The income generated by advertising, television deals and tape sales was used to poach talent from rival promoters. By this time all the wrestling promoters became his opponents. You can watch the WWE fights in MMA videos which is the result of the hard work of McMahon.

Undoubtedly Hogan was the biggest star of McMahon and there arose a debate as to whether the WWF could have achieved national success without him or not. Despite of being warned by his father, McMahon always have bold ambitions. His life is full of experiments; he believes that it is your strength to take risk which leads you to success. His bolder ambition was: the WWF would tour nationally. This kind of a venture required a lot of investment and WWF came almost on the edge of financial collapse. But the success of Wrestle Mania has worth his efforts.

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