WCW: "The Sins of Vince McMahon"
The wrestling world was shocked when on January 1st, 2009 it became official that Shane McMahon has left the WWE company. Rumors flew on why it happened as Shane has meetings with UFC about possibly becoming a part owner in the mixed martial art empire. Vince McMahon and the WWE let the resignation go without a real explanation on its reasoning but soon it would come to light in a very public way.
On February 12, 2010, tabloid news agency TMZ broke the sex scandal story of the McMahon family. Thye uncovered that Vince McMahon had an affair with his son’s wife, Marissa Mazzola. This was the reason that Shane resigned from the WWE as he tried desperately to keep it a secret and save his family.
The scandal had more effects as Linda McMahon’s US Senate campaign was ruined and she was forced to drop out amiss the chaos. She decided that she has had finally enough of Vince’s headaches and filed for divorce after 43 years of marriage. Shane followed suit after the public outing of the scandal was too much to take and filed for divorce himself. The two together decided there was only one person to blame for the heartbreak and that was Vincent Kennedy McMahon and the only way to get back at him was in the wallet.
Most divorce experts predicted that Linda and Shane would walk away with most of their respected marital assets due to the affair but the two decided that wasn’t the way they wanted to do it, they wanted to beat Vince at his own game. They wanted to run the WWE out of business, not win it in a court case.
Linda and Vince settled out of court and soon the pro wrestling aspect of the settlement came to light. Linda listened to Shane’s advice and walked out with what the son wanted. They were the following five things.
Vince laughed at the offer, saying they weren’t going to destroy the company that he built but after a meeting with his army or attorneys, in which they told Mr. McMahon that if the case would go to a judge, he would lose a lot more, Vince signed the deal . He promised that he was going to run them out of business within in a year and that Linda would become a horror story to divorced women everywhere.
The jolted McMahons had everything they wanted to start a new professional wrestling company, more then any other company has ever started with. They went to put together a team of people that will make it number one in the world and by the list of enemies that Vince has made through out the years, they had a lot of candidates.
Although both McMahons came out out of their divorces with a good chuck of money neither was willing to invest 100 percent in their new enterprise. This is when the two made a trip to Montana to talk to ex-WCW owner, Ted Turner, Turner had always been a fan of pro wrestling and was still upset watching WCW fall apart after his selling of Turner Broadcasting. He agreed to invest money in the new company, becoming a part owner. They then flew half-way across the world to the home of Australian millionaire promoter, Andrew McManus. They promised him tours of Europe and Australia under his AMP promotional banner as icing on the cake for his investment. But McManus had one stipulation, he said after helping produce two tours of professional wrestlers, he saw what happens to many of them that is past their prime. He suggested in allowing the wrestlers to be full time employees with the company and given proper benefits. The McMahons agreed to the idea and felt that is something that should have been done for years. They set up a wrestler benefits department and McManus came aboard, giving the company more then enough money to be successful.
The company put the money to work as they put together a dream team of wrestling experts like Paul Heyman (head of creative). Gabe Sabots (creative writing), Jim Ross (talent) and Jessse Ventura (wrestlers rights) to run the new company. The experts decided instead of going with a new name that the company will bring back the WCW one since it was known to a majority of wrestling fans. Now it was time to assemble a roster.
Superstars that felt they have fell out of favor with Vince was the full to jump ship as Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Mickie James and Shelton Benjamin was some of the first to sign on with WCW. People began to speculate that they wouldn’t be able to land big stars even with the money and giving wrestlers benefits but that changed in one move.
John Cena made the announcement that he was leaving the WWE for the new WCW in a move that shocked everyone. It was rumored that people close to Cena thought staying with Vince and WWE would heart his image that he has worked so hard to obtain. This opened the floodgates as more main eventers followed his lead.
Heyman and Ross topped off the rosters with a raid into TNA and bringing in some top notch free agents. Everything was going to plan for their 2010 summer debut of the new WCW.
Roster
John Cena
Chris Jericho
Edge
Kurt Angle
Jef Hardy
CM Punk
Christian
Samoa Joe
James Storm
Rey Mysterio Jr.
Mr. Kennedy
John Morrison
Bryan Danielson
William Regal
Santino
Dolph Ziggler
Jack Swagger
Shelton Benjamin
Zach Ryder
Chris Sabin
Alex Shelley
Mickie James
Gail Kim
Angelina Love
Victoria
Candice Michelle
Ashley Massaro
The wrestling world was shocked when on January 1st, 2009 it became official that Shane McMahon has left the WWE company. Rumors flew on why it happened as Shane has meetings with UFC about possibly becoming a part owner in the mixed martial art empire. Vince McMahon and the WWE let the resignation go without a real explanation on its reasoning but soon it would come to light in a very public way.
On February 12, 2010, tabloid news agency TMZ broke the sex scandal story of the McMahon family. Thye uncovered that Vince McMahon had an affair with his son’s wife, Marissa Mazzola. This was the reason that Shane resigned from the WWE as he tried desperately to keep it a secret and save his family.
The scandal had more effects as Linda McMahon’s US Senate campaign was ruined and she was forced to drop out amiss the chaos. She decided that she has had finally enough of Vince’s headaches and filed for divorce after 43 years of marriage. Shane followed suit after the public outing of the scandal was too much to take and filed for divorce himself. The two together decided there was only one person to blame for the heartbreak and that was Vincent Kennedy McMahon and the only way to get back at him was in the wallet.
Most divorce experts predicted that Linda and Shane would walk away with most of their respected marital assets due to the affair but the two decided that wasn’t the way they wanted to do it, they wanted to beat Vince at his own game. They wanted to run the WWE out of business, not win it in a court case.
Linda and Vince settled out of court and soon the pro wrestling aspect of the settlement came to light. Linda listened to Shane’s advice and walked out with what the son wanted. They were the following five things.
Vince laughed at the offer, saying they weren’t going to destroy the company that he built but after a meeting with his army or attorneys, in which they told Mr. McMahon that if the case would go to a judge, he would lose a lot more, Vince signed the deal . He promised that he was going to run them out of business within in a year and that Linda would become a horror story to divorced women everywhere.
The jolted McMahons had everything they wanted to start a new professional wrestling company, more then any other company has ever started with. They went to put together a team of people that will make it number one in the world and by the list of enemies that Vince has made through out the years, they had a lot of candidates.
Although both McMahons came out out of their divorces with a good chuck of money neither was willing to invest 100 percent in their new enterprise. This is when the two made a trip to Montana to talk to ex-WCW owner, Ted Turner, Turner had always been a fan of pro wrestling and was still upset watching WCW fall apart after his selling of Turner Broadcasting. He agreed to invest money in the new company, becoming a part owner. They then flew half-way across the world to the home of Australian millionaire promoter, Andrew McManus. They promised him tours of Europe and Australia under his AMP promotional banner as icing on the cake for his investment. But McManus had one stipulation, he said after helping produce two tours of professional wrestlers, he saw what happens to many of them that is past their prime. He suggested in allowing the wrestlers to be full time employees with the company and given proper benefits. The McMahons agreed to the idea and felt that is something that should have been done for years. They set up a wrestler benefits department and McManus came aboard, giving the company more then enough money to be successful.
The company put the money to work as they put together a dream team of wrestling experts like Paul Heyman (head of creative). Gabe Sabots (creative writing), Jim Ross (talent) and Jessse Ventura (wrestlers rights) to run the new company. The experts decided instead of going with a new name that the company will bring back the WCW one since it was known to a majority of wrestling fans. Now it was time to assemble a roster.
Superstars that felt they have fell out of favor with Vince was the full to jump ship as Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, Mickie James and Shelton Benjamin was some of the first to sign on with WCW. People began to speculate that they wouldn’t be able to land big stars even with the money and giving wrestlers benefits but that changed in one move.
John Cena made the announcement that he was leaving the WWE for the new WCW in a move that shocked everyone. It was rumored that people close to Cena thought staying with Vince and WWE would heart his image that he has worked so hard to obtain. This opened the floodgates as more main eventers followed his lead.
Heyman and Ross topped off the rosters with a raid into TNA and bringing in some top notch free agents. Everything was going to plan for their 2010 summer debut of the new WCW.
Roster
John Cena
Chris Jericho
Edge
Kurt Angle
Jef Hardy
CM Punk
Christian
Samoa Joe
James Storm
Rey Mysterio Jr.
Mr. Kennedy
John Morrison
Bryan Danielson
William Regal
Santino
Dolph Ziggler
Jack Swagger
Shelton Benjamin
Zach Ryder
Chris Sabin
Alex Shelley
Mickie James
Gail Kim
Angelina Love
Victoria
Candice Michelle
Ashley Massaro
