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Vince McMahon will never learn, and that hurts us all
by , 07-23-2013 at 02:17 PM (3245 Views)
How do I know you're not sick?/You could be some deranged lunatic!
---Will Smith, aka the Fresh Prince, 1987.
The above line best describes WWE Chairman/CEO Vince McMahon, who will turn 68 next month. Over the last 11 years, McMahon has made a number of questionable decisions that under different circumstances would've torpedoed his corporate empire, but yet, it marches on, ever so slowly.
For the 2nd time in 3 years, McMahon is ignoring his creative team as it relates to one of the stalest personalities on the roster, one Vickie Guerrero. Consider:
February 2011: Guerrero is "fired" from Smackdown for usurping Teddy Long's 2nd tour of duty as GM so she could have the job for herself as a means of gaining leverage in her feud with storyline ex-husband Edge (Adam Copeland). 10 days later, Guerrero, along with Dolph Ziggler, returns to Raw, hired by its then-anonymous GM. Don't go thinking that Hornswoggle was the GM the whole time. He was the punch line as a means of keeping the true ID of the GM buried forever when he was "revealed" a year later.
What should've been done: Vickie should've been kept off TV for at least 1-3 months before "applying for reinstatement". This development should be included in the current angle.
July 8 2013: Vickie is "fired" by Stephanie McMahon as managing supervisor of Raw, though Steph foreshadows pending plot twists by acknowledging her father will rehire Vickie soon enough.
July 19: Vickie is installed as Smackdown GM once more, this time usurping Long & Booker T, who were about to feud. In the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal 6 days earlier, this was bad timing. After Vickie had shown up at Smackdown the previous week, and was ejected, she was used as an analyst for the PPV Pre-show. Go figure.
What should've been done: Again, Vickie should've been given a vacation and freshened with a new gimmick, but Vince being Vince, and being senile, won't let her off TV. She got 4 months' summer vacation in 2009, then was brought back, but right now, she's a pawn in the latest McMahon family civil war, playing out on both shows.
What has to be done: Stephanie & Triple H should be able to step up to the plate, shall we say, and enforce Vickie's dismissal from 7/8, and say that it applies across the board. If Vince has a problem, well, they can expose that he's had a secret affair with Vickie the whole time, and keeps her on the payroll just to spite the fanbase and his family, who clearly don't like her at all. It's all leading to an inevitable match between McMahon, who shouldn't be fighting anymore, and HHH, who turns 44 next Monday, likely at Wrestlemania 30. And we all know Vince will lose that night, since he NEVER wins at Wrestlemania.
You know Vince lies when he says he listens to the fans. It's clear that he doesn't, else he'd have done the right thing for business 4 years ago by moving Guerrero to a PR position in the Latino community. That position can still be created, because Vickie's usefulness to the company as a heel character is now non-existent. She's beyond stale. All McMahon cares about is the heat Vickie generates, and he thinks that is enough to keep her around. No, it isn't. Part of being in the business is having certain qualities that have redeeming value. Unfortunately, for Vickie Guerrero, her redeeming value expired with S & H Green Stamps.
And, then, there is Brad Maddox, wrestler-turned-executive. It's obvious to the fans and wrestlers that Maddox is a McMahon puppet GM, easily cowed into doing what the insane chairman wants. To end that, Maddox needs to have his character grow a spine and "a set", if you will, and fast. If it can facilitate the final storyline that sends Vince into retirement, once and for all, more power to them. However, McMahon will not go away, and he won't take his puppets with him. That hurts us all.
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