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5 Wrestling Executives Who Influenced Vince McMahon (& 5 He Looked Down On)
Vince McMahon is the most famous wrestling promoter of all time, and accordingly the one who has enjoyed the greatest success over the longest period of time. In his time presiding over World Wrestling Entertainment, the brand went from regional, to national, to truly international. It’s that rare entity more or less synonymous with its product—WWE is to pro wrestling what Kleenex is to tissues or Xerox is to photocopies.
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McMahon had his influences—those who came before him, as well as those contemporaries he recognized value in. He also had his share of other executives, both within and outside WWE, whom he looked at with disdain.
10 10. Influenced: Pat Patterson
There are exceedingly few people who can claim to have been Vince McMahon’s right-hand man, and fewer still who never fell out of favor, or whom McMahon never dismissed from the company. Pat Patterson is that special wrestling mind who helped McMahon with his booking and laying out matches from early on, and remained a trusted adviser to his retirement.
Patterson is widely credited as the creator of the Royal Rumble and the mastermind behind many of its best
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Professional wrestling in the United States
Professional wrestling in the United States, through the advent of television in the 1950s, and cable in the 1980s, began appearing in powerful media outlets, reaching never before seen numbers of viewers. It became an international phenomenon with the expansion of the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Throughout the 1990s, professional wrestling achieved highs in both viewers and financial success during a time of fierce competition among competing promotions, such as WWF, World Championship Wrestling, and Extreme Championship Wrestling.
The nature of professional wrestling changed dramatically to better fit television, enhancing character traits and storylines. Television also helped many wrestlers break into mainstream media, becoming influential celebrities and icons of popular culture. In the United States, in the First Golden Age of professional wrestling in the 1940s–1960s, Gorgeous George gained mainstream popularity, followed in the Second Golden Age in the 1980s–early 1990s by Hulk Hogan, André the Giant, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Ric Flair, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Ultimate Warrior, Sting, Dusty Rhodes, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker, and in the Third Golden Age of the mid-1990s–early 2000s b
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In interpretation new AWA DVD, Author stated unwind was calved in 1926.--DrRisk1302:21, 23 Nov 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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