Vince McMahon "retires" *Megathread* Mod warning added in post 437

That's my nights viewing sorted

Kind of wish FB pages would stop putting spoilers up

Watched two this evening. It’s grand. That’s it.

Has really feck all to do with Vince and nearly is just a love letter to PW and WWE.

Am enjoying it. It’s interesting to get so much candid Vince insight.

My missus is meh about wrestling. She’s had enjoyable nights at OTT but wouldn’t last ten minutes watching Raw or even Mania.

She commented how utterly uninteresting it was.

It’s from the makers of the Tiger King. That was fascinating. Truly jaw dropping. The stuff throughout that were “10”s. Ringboys, Steroids, WCW, Montreal don’t even register as a “1 or 2”.

The Benoit situation is probably worthy of a documentary all on its own.

3 episodes in

Enjoying it but a lot of the first 3 are more about Vinces 'creations' and the steroid trials

Phil Mushnick hates WWE and Vince, Vince hates him too

The Benoit situation? Dark Side of the Ring opened their second series with a two parter on it and, to me, it's really the final authoritative word (as far as documentaries go) on that whole dark tragedy. Smart marks can say what they want about Jericho, but he (and Chavo Guerrero) was able to engineer one small glimmer of light from the aftermath of it, so for that alone, he'll always be OK in my book.

Anyway, I digress.

Yeah, looking at the third episode right now and as James Romero of WSI opined, it's basically just a potted history of WWE. All the hits like Vince McMahon took wrestling from a grubby curiosity enacted in cigar smoked filled back rooms to unseen heights - yada, yada, yada. I'd still put it on for something to give my not undivided attention to, but nothing I haven't heard before.

What I want to know is why Netflix went ahead with what appears to be a largely sympathetic portrayal of the man. I would have thought they would be following WWE's general playbook of '…Vince who?' so as not to remind advertisers that the company was once headed up by a guy currently under investigation for sex trafficking, and that's not to mention the other scandals which the doc touches upon like the steroids and ring boy allegations. Basically, not a great business move to be reminding anyone in any way that professional wrestling was, and possibly still is, a pretty seedy business.

It's remarkable that Bruce Pritchard still has a job with WWE when he's one of McMahon's chief apologists. I would have thought he'd be let go in order to symbolise the transition to a new era. Either he's got an iron clad deal, or he's just so good at his work that they're hanging on to him.

I am also 3 in, I'm enjoying it.

The cracks are beginning to appear, but we all know how the story played out in the end. Any wrestling fan knows about Fingerpoke of Doom.

Despite everything that happened on and off screen, we all know that Vince won in the end, he walked away with $9,300,000,000

If you're a wrestling fan giving this a miss is a wild call

I was really hyped for this and watched it all but it really didn't light a fire in my belly.

It isn't bad for sure and a six hour investment in anything on Netflix nowadays is nothing. But being perfectly honest as a wrestling fan there are a platora of docs that were/are more interesting, compelling and more worthy of your time.

If anyone here hasn't seen this I wouldn't dragging you by the sleeves to go see it. Whereas the likes of DSOTR I'd implore everyone here to seek them out ASAP.

It was a good watch and for us 'fans' really didn't tell us anything we didn't know . His work 'in the business' is legendary and gave us a lot of great memories even if some of the 'Mr McMahon' stuff was quite frankly ridiculous and at times uncomfortable viewing. Surprised they didn't mention that 'money contest' thing he done which ended with the stage falling on him

It would of been intresting to hear the 'planned interviews to end it' but Vince was obviously told 'no stay away'

The story is not over yet and it's going to be a rollercoaster ride

Intresting hearing taker and Bruce saying how much they love the man

I did get a laugh out of Prichard's one last defence of Vince only for them to cut to 2 days later.

It was worthwhile for those little moments alone.

Did Vince say there was incest in his family growing up or did I misunderstand him?

Shane came across very well in for me.

Very hard for someone who is a multi millionaire in their own right and the son of a billionaire to appear as a sympathetic character and the only McMahon to come across as grounded and sane person.