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00:25Take one, common market.
00:28So, am I addressing everything to you?
00:30Yeah, just...
00:30Okay.
00:32I think it's got to go that way.
00:38Okay.
00:39They're all straight pieces.
00:41Oh, thank you, everybody.
00:42Yeah, no, thank you.
00:59You good?
00:59I'm good, I guess.
01:01Where are we?
01:02What are we doing?
01:04Well, I'm talking about me, which I have never done before.
01:07I don't like talking about me.
01:10You know, I'm talking about everybody else.
01:11I'm cool with, I can go perform, but this is, like, very strange, a little different,
01:16me talking about me.
01:18So, I'll do the best I can.
01:21Larger than life, Vince McMahon, more famous than some of the wrestling stars he helped
01:27create.
01:27McMahon has been called the P.T. Barnum of wrestling, building WWE into an international
01:33billion-dollar business.
01:34He's also an on-screen presence as the billionaire bad guy boss.
01:38Friendly, how have you been?
01:42For a long period of time, people have wondered who I really am.
01:47You know, portrayal of me that I'm a bad guy.
01:50But no one really knows me.
01:52And it's been a while for me to try and figure out myself.
01:55I still haven't quite figured out who I am.
01:58Do I know Vince McMahon?
02:01I don't think anybody knows Vince McMahon.
02:04Please welcome Mr. McMahon!
02:07People know who he is, but they really don't know who he is.
02:13The person that he puts out there, the larger-than-life promoter, a lot of that is a character.
02:20When it comes to him personally, he's going to show you what he wants you to see.
02:26Very few people are in control of a world.
02:29Vince McMahon was.
02:30He has built something so powerful, so big, and so ingrained in people generationally.
02:39He did things that no one thought were possible.
02:42And he took no prisoners in the process.
02:45With Vince McMahon, he comes as advertised.
02:48And what you expect, well, that's exactly what you're going to get.
02:52I love Vince, and I have a lot of respect for him.
02:55He was a guy that often lied to me and let me down with his lies.
02:59Do you think your dad gets a bad rap?
03:01I think my dad gets the rap that he wants.
03:12Breaking news that was just brought to me.
03:15Vince McMahon, the legendary CEO and chairman of World Wide Wrestling Entertainment, is stepping aside.
03:20The Wall Street Journal reports that WWE is investigating a secret $3 million settlement that Vince McMahon agreed to pay
03:27a now former employee, who McMahon is accused of having a consensual affair with.
03:32It started with a tip, and the tip was that the board of WWE had received an anonymous email.
03:38The emailer was accusing McMahon of having taken advantage of an employee and then covered it up.
03:43Another thing we heard was, you're only scratching the surface, and there's a lot more here.
03:48That first story in June of 2022 touched off a series of events that included us reporting on other NDAs,
03:56government investigations, Vince stepping down, Vince McMahon returning, and then selling the company, and then a lawsuit against him that
04:09contains some of the most graphic details imaginable.
04:11The WWE mogul resigning on Friday after a former employee filed a lawsuit accusing him of subjecting her to, quote,
04:20countless depraved and humiliating acts.
04:32I wish I could tell you the real stories. Holy shit.
04:38All right, give us one.
04:40No.
04:40Why?
04:41That's what I'm saying. I don't want to tell you these stories.
04:45I'll give you enough that it's semi-interesting.
04:49I don't want anybody to really know me.
04:55He's as polarizing as he is entertaining.
04:58Vince McMahon is part renegade, part mogul, and all showman.
05:02Over decades, McMahon turned the WWE into a billion-dollar juggernaut.
05:08Throw in one part athletics, one part theatrics, and more than a dash of violence, and what do you get?
05:13One of America's favorite pastimes.
05:15100% grade A Americano.
05:18The Justice Department has announced the indictment of a man who runs the World Wrestling Federation.
05:23This is about crime. This is about breaking the law.
05:27This was a tyrant ahead of this organization that ruled by fear.
05:32What did he know? What did he do? And what did he try to hide?
05:35This goes beyond business. It's a family matter as well.
05:38This is like succession in a wrestling ring.
05:42Another corporate leader mired in a sex scandal.
05:45We're not talking about guard-variety misconduct. We're talking about some real awful things.
05:49A lot of Vince McMahon, his ability to get away with stuff, was because he was also this character.
05:55Where does the line between Vince McMahon and Mr. McMahon end?
05:59You're fired!
06:12Well, the first thing I need to tell you is, you're not gonna totally understand what happened or what is,
06:22because you have to live it to comprehend it.
06:26You're only gonna know what they tell you.
06:29So I just know wrestlers and promoters and know this business.
06:32So you're not gonna get, you know, the whole enchilada.
06:39To explain what pro wrestling is, is turning fantasy into reality.
06:49Go!
06:52Go!
06:53Go!
06:56I remember guys going, why do you watch that bullshit wrestling?
06:58It's on, none of it's real.
06:59Who cares?
07:00It's just phony wrestling.
07:03It's like...
07:05You're wrong.
07:06I look at what I did.
07:08That's an art form.
07:10Just watch the beauty of it.
07:13it's wrestling is this curious phenomenon that allows people to let out their aggressions while
07:17watching a morality play most people when they're driving home they go ah it was all show son none
07:24of that was real but when they're there in the building you want to believe it's real
07:31i was a true artist
07:36people that weren't fans would say it's all fans that are too stupid to realize
07:41that it's not real no it's all people that are smart enough to accept the fact that it's a show
07:47and buy into characters and the storylines and engage in it in that manner pro wrestling
07:54has always been a soap opera just in broad primary colors here's your hero here's your villain here's
08:02your damsel in distress we give you an opportunity to feel when you see everything that we do it's
08:10about emotion and it's about grandeur that's what america is it's larger than life it's great
08:19stories powerful entertainment is american culture professional wrestling matters in that it's so much
08:28a part of american culture and nobody talks about it as mattering vince mcmahon's influence and impact
08:37is largely ignored but it is affecting the way the world around us is working
08:53from there we're gonna have to swing down to phoenix to do some pr for march 31st this is 39
08:59year old
08:59vince mcmahon a third generation wrestling promoter sometime announcer and the force behind the wwf
09:05one day we hope to be recognized as the premier source of sports entertainment in the world today
09:16i got my start in the business because of my dad
09:21my dad was considered the best promoter in the business
09:25i first met vince mcmahon senior in madison square garden when i was 15 years old
09:31he looked and presented himself like the pope of madison square garden
09:38when i was growing up i didn't know that my last name was mcmahon until i met my dad when
09:42i was 12
09:42years old before that i grew up in a trailer park with my mom and this certain stepfather who was
09:49abusive i got the crap made out of me on almost a daily basis you just live with it until
09:56you get out
09:57of it when all that you know physical abuse and everything was happening never heard a word from
10:03my dad i saw my dad for the first time
10:09so almost like my dad had a glow about him i ran up to him open arms expecting to have
10:15this big hug
10:17and i got a you know on the back kind of like everyone hmm that's a little bit different
10:23but unless i sort of fell in love with him right away you could feel he had in his heart
10:29the way
10:30that you wanted him to be somewhat or maybe i was just bullshitting myself i don't know
10:37my dad and i never had the conversation about why he wasn't in my life during all those formative
10:43years or even when i became much older we never talked about that
10:49one thing that's indisputably true about vince mcmahon is that he came from basically nothing
10:56but once his father came into his life whatever dreams of escape vince had went from the abstract
11:02to the concrete he could point at his dad and say that's what i aspire to and that's going to
11:09be my
11:09way out of this
11:13i never saw much rustling on television until i met my dad and then oh this is what he does
11:20hmm i mean he's a big charismatic individual larger in life and they have problems with each other
11:27and the resolution is physical and they fight them i like that
11:32at that time a sort of a strange relationship with my dad we didn't play ball together or there was
11:39no
11:39camaraderie that way we talked business even at that age that was sort of the what we had in common
11:47i know the fact that we were blood
11:50vince and i met when i was 13 and he was 16. i don't think i ever heard him talk
11:55about doing anything else
11:58other than wanting to be involved in the business of professional wrestling
12:03i knew i wanted to be in my dad's business come on pop there's got to be something
12:06and that's when he allowed me to go to uh bangor maine
12:11it's the furthest northern outpost in my dad's territory
12:16bangor was a success and my dad was thinking huh kid did pretty well
12:22then one day i'm with my dad he's doing a television show and our television announcer kept asking for more
12:29money the show is about ready to begin and he said well if you don't pay me what i want
12:34i'm walking out
12:35and my dad a lot of times had these quarters he would like click these quarters in his hand as
12:40he
12:40was thinking so i see him off like this he's thinking i said pop what are you gonna do
12:48go announce hear the announcer show number one recording of all-star wrestling in hamburg
12:54pennsylvania just quick enough for you pop slated uh play uh just roll it daddy hello everybody my name
13:00is vince mcmahon so i start trying to bs my way through as an announcer
13:06bobo leto's neck muscles big biceps a great athlete and really a deed not to belabor a point
13:12but it is indeed nice to have him back here this week this week vince was a horrible commentator
13:19but one thing that vince had was emotion and vince told stories i realized that i'm the conduit
13:28i have to translate to the audience what's going on in the ring here's the story that's being told
13:34the visco is facing a legend our business is no different than a play a movie books it's all the
13:40same okay you have an environment so we establish whatever the environment is
13:44they've jam-packed this arena the next thing you have to do is create some very interesting
13:49characters the visco of course the only individual to have been trained by bruno sammartino
13:53the good and the bad a baby face which meant a good guy and the other was a heel which
13:59meant a bad guy and sammartino holds the rope open for sammartino
14:05and then you introduce another character
14:08such a referee flying out but there's always this big finish
14:17the formula is simple but not that easy to do
14:23sammartino laying in a pool of blood
14:28kept that job announcing for my dad
14:33and it wasn't long after that but my dad wanted to get out of the business
14:36so he wanted to sell to someone and when he was going to sell to someone he wasn't thinking about
14:41me at all
14:43as a matter of fact he was going to sell it to gorilla monsoon who was a partner at that
14:47time
14:48monsoon with another little jab there
14:50holly's not finding his mark at all
14:53when i joined the company gorilla monsoon was the heir apparent
14:56and i could feel the tension right away
14:59gorilla monsoon thinks i'm competition
15:03and boy was he right
15:05when i proposed to buy my dad's business
15:07they made a deal with me i'll give you extra dollars here
15:11three months later those three months later that and then the final payment
15:15and if i miss a payment
15:17then you get the business back and keep the money
15:20that appealed to my dad and appealed to his other stockholders
15:23because they're thinking his kid's not going to make it
15:27we took over vince's father's company
15:30we actually were paying with money that they would have been generating
15:35should they have stayed in the business
15:37you know it was robbing peter to pay paul
15:40made the last payment and no one could believe it
15:43my dad was really really surprised
15:46do you think your dad wanted you to succeed
15:49i think my dad wanted me succeed
15:53but then again sometimes i think he didn't
15:56i honestly thought that he didn't want to make it easy for vince
16:00that he really wanted to let him know what it was like to struggle
16:04but it was strange because when i bought the business
16:08there was some friction there because my dad he then worked for me
16:12and i knew he didn't want what i wanted
16:15hello everyone welcome to all american wrestling
16:17my vision was to upgrade the product
16:20my vision was to make this mainstream
16:23not the lower class that uh everyone thought it was
16:28i didn't want to be pro wrestling
16:29i don't like that term today
16:31i want to be something beyond pro wrestling
16:34i wanted us to grow and compete against all these other promoters all over the country
16:39during this point in time the wrestling industry was regional
16:44and operated in what was called the territory system
16:47there were separate wrestling companies around the country and they each ran
16:51shows both live and on tv within their own territories
16:56so you had florida you had georgia you had the mid-atlantic the carolinas there was san francisco
17:02portland seattle vince's dad had the wwe which was then known as wwf
17:09in the northeast territory and there were these imaginary lines that no one crossed
17:16it was a good old boy system people had agreements and you didn't break those agreements
17:21as soon as i closed the deal i knew right what i wanted to do i'm gonna go right into
17:28their
17:28territories one of the great world rusting federation cities st louis missouri and indeed
17:35then started promoting his own shows in what would traditionally be someone else's territory
17:42and that ruffled a lot of feathers whether it's in st louis los angeles hoboken new jersey or
17:49wherever no doubt the world wrestling federation will be there so my dad was very much against
17:55that he said take it easy vinnie don't rock the boat it hurt my dad but at the same time
18:01i'm in
18:02business other promoters started threatening my dad you know your kid vince is going to wind up at
18:09the bottom of the river i don't know what it is these promoters i guess love the bottoms of rivers
18:14which whenever i threatened i didn't care because you didn't own anything i'm competing with you
18:24back with you here on all-star wrestling and joining me now former nine-time heavyweight champion
18:29of the world vergonian i worked for vergonian the awa which was one of the strongest territories and as
18:36far as vergonian was concerned vince was satan he was the devil he came in and ruined all the territories
18:43in a moment we'll take you to tampa florida once they made their national expansion and started
18:48shattering the territory mold so many of the top talent who were really fixtures in other territories
18:55decided to take a better opportunity with vince mcmahon and the wwe
19:00our talent were making so much money which attracted other talents it's a virtual flood of wrestling
19:07talent into the world wrestling federation the likes of which we've never seen before if you really
19:12look at what he did he was quite cutthroat he basically went in almost every territory and
19:18brought out their top guys then he would go back to their town with the three or four guys that
19:23he
19:23stole from there there was nothing anybody could do about it we understand that you're attempting
19:28to invade almost every area in the united states that's right most wrestlers that worked for vince
19:34came from somewhere else and somebody else did the hard work to make that person who they were
19:39and one phone call they ran and left that guy standing in the dust just like he did with me
19:46i could
19:47make you more money here it's a dog eat dog world and you have to get your bite out of
19:53it it was one of
19:55those things right not taking anything away from anyone i'm building and if you can't compete with me
20:02it's america tough there's no doubt that the popularity of the world wrestling federation
20:10continues by leaps and bounds and at that time i'm competing with all these promoters successfully so
20:16i then said okay now i can do things my way my dad chose bob backland as a champion i
20:24love to travel i love
20:25the fans i love wrestling and every minute of my life is a pleasure he was the all-american boy
20:31but
20:31a little too milk toast i was looking for someone that had more charisma look at that are you kidding
20:39me look at this the dream just bubbling his man now oh no it's like okay there was dusty roads
20:45as a
20:45possibility you can look up in this building in a matter a few hours when it's full and you can
20:50see a
20:50black man and a white man need now the same popcorn box whoa that's funky that's the american dream
20:59i had only ever been told by my father that he just didn't believe in it it seemed too large
21:05of an
21:06endeavor dusty could not take advantage of the opportunity and so i kept looking for someone that
21:13would charm you someone that would excite you you know someone that was larger than life this man is
21:20not a television illusion the first time i met hulk hogan it was years before i bought my dad's
21:29business wow what a physical specimen and he was sterling golden sterling golden my dad saw him and
21:38said man that's not your name and he changed it to hulk hogan the incredible hulk hogan when they
21:47brought me up they needed somebody the people thought could beat andre the giant who's one of their big
21:54stars andre the giant is sports entertainment's first attraction you could advertise andre the giant
22:06and you could draw a house i was kind of like andre's other half we wrestled everywhere chase
22:16stadium was sold out with me and andre the giant so i was pretty well established and one of the
22:21ways i
22:21would get established was to have these so-called tv matches during those matches i would wrestle two guys
22:30sylvester stallone saw that so that's how i ended up getting offered the part in the rocky movie
22:37i was talking with vince senior about doing rocky 3 and then senior says you're not doing that you're
22:43a wrestler you know you don't act and you don't do tv stuff he asked my dad my dad said
22:49no no because my
22:51dad had invested a lot in a hogan and wanted to get his money out of it he goes well
22:56if you do that
22:57you're fired and you'll never work here again i said okay cool
23:04when i did the rocky movie i knew it was going to be big i'm coming after you malibaba
23:11if you took starface if you took the godfather the rocky franchise was bigger than all that it was
23:19americana i knew it was going to put me on the map it just went crazy what you
23:27welcome hulk hogan you are one good-sized person thank you thank you one big man in the middle of
23:36this verne gone you got a hold of me is how quick can you get to minnesota
23:41hulk hogan back in the awa and i cannot when i went to the awa i started the hulkamania stuff
23:48i started ripping my shirt off and it was growing and becoming dominant
23:53i followed his career and he was really honing in on his talents here comes hogan here is the lake
24:01smash i am the champion this is your vote this came to me and said hey i want to take
24:07over all
24:07the territories and i want to do with you and i went let's go brother hulk knew where where the
24:14business was going and he knew vince was the direction it was an easy decision some guy's going to push
24:19you
24:19and make you the the biggest star and you're going to go national the other guy just wants to promote
24:24minneapolis and chicago and milwaukee i've been dreaming my whole career about going back and
24:30would then said what he was going to do with me i knew what was going to happen
24:38i would like to thank the wwf for bringing the holster back
24:42so somehow i had to transfer a potato from bob backland to get to hogan i couldn't make that match
24:48there were two quote baby faces so i used the iron sheikh
24:56the iron sheikh from iran was one of the most disliked individuals we've ever had as a heel in our
25:05company there was a lot of nationalism then a lot of uh rah-rah america and for years we had
25:13problems
25:14about iran the president met with the national security council in washington about the fast
25:18breaking developments in iran there was american hostages that were being held in iran it's front
25:24page news it was talked about every single day so when the iron sheikh would be in the ring you
25:30know
25:30waving the iranian flag and all that actually i got a negative reaction you look at what is happening
25:38and you try and tell a story off of that and have people be able to react in a way
25:44that they
25:44couldn't necessarily react in real life again a lot of people do not like the iron sheep you can't find
25:50an iranian sheep walking down the street that you can boo and hiss at and see him get beat up
25:56but you
25:57could go to the wrestling matches and you could see it it doesn't always age well but you look at
26:09the
26:09movies movies depicted japan as the evil empire attacking america anybody from japan was not to be
26:18trusted germany you are a liar russians if he dies he dies you were taught in an early age
26:31these people foreigners they were the bad guys from russia right wrong and different in that time
26:40the bad guy was the russian bad guy the german bad guy the japanese bad guy and it was easy
26:49to
26:49understand for people wrestling is an imitation of the world if you want to know what america is like
26:57watch wrestling we show you yourself tell me a wrestler you don't like
27:04how come you don't like he's from another country man from another country
27:10vincey what's going on he followed the rhythm that's how he became rich he never swim upstream
27:19you can look back on anything and say oh i bet you regret that well look back on you know
27:2610 years
27:2720 years five years ago life was different then you know things were different values were different
27:33and you can't take the values of today and look back and say okay the same values apply to that
27:39well
27:39it was a different time different life different set of values then if it were done today wow that
27:44would be a problem but then i didn't think it was a real big deal the iron sheik
27:54so i wanted to transfer the title from bob backland to the iron sheik and then of course setting us
28:01up
28:02for this big blonde hair all-american to come in and beat the iron sheik from iran
28:08paul togan needed the ultimate opponent and the timing was impeccable
28:13it's the all-american hero versus this evil iranian
28:22back then vince made the decision if i was going to win or lose the match
28:27but what we physically did in the ring i called in the ring on the spot when we didn't rehearse
28:33anything that started form of wrestling
28:38i jumped in before the bell rang didn't tell him i was going to do it it just felt like
28:42the right
28:43thing to do
28:43hulk now has the sheik's rope and he clotheslined him with it
28:47didn't tell him i was going to clothesline him with it choke him out with it
28:50just all happens
28:52hulk now is in trouble you have to listen to the crowd
29:05it's a really huge response from madison square garden
29:13and of course everyone knows of hulk hogan to this day
29:17all i asked was for the whole wwf to stand behind the holster and i told him i'd bring it
29:22home for the usa hulkamanias running worldwide to put the belt on the iron sheet and then have
29:30the business direction that the belt's coming to me because we need a guy to be the hood armor to
29:35take over the world that was a business decision that ben's had to execute creatively and it worked
29:43many fans feel that hulk hogan is perhaps the most exciting pro wrestling champion ever you can't
29:50overemphasize the importance of hulk hogan you take hulk hogan out of the equation i think um
29:56i think vince fails in his expansion i'm relatively certain he fails in expansion pro wrestling is a
30:01star-driven business and the ability to make stars is what makes you popular vince was much better at
30:07making stars than all of these other promoters because his father was vince mcmahon senior was
30:14really good at making the top guys come across like stars which was more important than having good
30:19wrestling matches that was vince's strength because it was his father's strength there is a point and
30:25my dad told me he was proud of me he said you know what vinnie all these friends of mine
30:30they're not
30:30really friends of mine all these promoters i've worked with all these years and their territories
30:34you know what fuck them you're beating all of them i'm proud of you for what you've done
30:39fuck them all and i thought wow it's the first time my dad ever said anything like that that he
30:45was on my
30:45side of course he waited until i was a success and maybe he felt that way all along but he
30:52never told me
30:54that was one of the biggest moments of my life until
31:04i would like to have you all rise in a moment of silence for mr vincent j mcmahon
31:13the day before he died it was the only time that he told me that he loved me but wow
31:18he told me before he died because i felt so good
31:25whether or not they care for you or not it's so wonderful in their life to have someone that you
31:30care for and i had that opportunity to really care about my dad and to love my dad
31:38i don't think he liked his father to be honest with you why do you say that
31:46when junior came along he had a vision that wrestling is going to change it can't remain
31:52the same and every idea that came out of his head drove his father up the roof
31:58it drove the wrestlers up the roof i remember the guy just sitting in the dress room talking about how
32:02nutty he was when vince became the owner of the company and he and his father started to clash
32:09the clashes were mostly because of vince senior's lack of willingness to accept where the industry
32:18and the business was headed
32:22vince come along with all the ideas that we thought were crazy it was just it was not wrestling
32:29vince had ideas about programming to a younger audience and not shying away from the fact that
32:37this was scripted entertainment vince really wanted to grow and expand while everybody else was looking
32:45at the territories vince understood that national cable was the future it was very clear to me from
32:51the very beginning that vince was looking at a bigger distribution usa network became the marketing
32:58channel for wwf vince always wanted to promote something new that they were doing vince was never
33:07in the wrestling business he was always in the entertainment business like for example when he first came in
33:15and took over he made that talk show and we thought he was off his deep end thank you welcome
33:22to tnt it was
33:24so much fun that's right it was the wild west in a talk show format it was a riot
33:33you stupid idiot vince was experimenting with different kinds of ways to expose the talent to different audiences
33:42i'm in favor of that for sure he always wanted to use wrestling as a stepping stone into other stuff
33:50our company was growing and things just started opening up and it's like well yeah let's do this
33:56let's do that the voice of the world wrestling federation and host of tnt mr vince mcmahon
34:04babe as you know um there are lots of mothers in new york city there was an overlap that you
34:10and
34:10vince had early on oh yeah yeah it was letterman's third anniversary show and they decide if a baby
34:19was born during the show then that baby would become the late night baby and so they sent vince mcmahon
34:27to one maternity ward and me to another uh vince i have a question for you yes david is that
34:33your tuxedo
34:34uh no actually it's not okay i think vince enjoyed being on david letterman it was as culturally hip
34:43a show as you could find it was a mark of credibility if david letterman gave you a figurative thumbs
34:49up
34:49i have a question for you larry is that your tux no it's not all right thank you vince always
34:56looked at
34:57how could he connect different aspects of the world of entertainment how can we co-brand with
35:04something and make both of our brands bigger and stronger
35:10hi you're listening to mtv music television and i'm cindy lopper cindy lopper was on mtv at that time
35:19and she was a huge star oh girls just wanna have fun for the uninitiated this is cindy lopper
35:28whose debut album she's so unusual placed four singles in the top five on the video for one of
35:33them girls just want to have fun captain lou albano appeared as cindy's father cindy lopper met
35:39captain lou albano on a plane and just felt that there could be some connection heavy metal wrestling
35:47guns there's an opportunity to grow our businesses both of us cindy tell all these people out here
35:54how i made your superstar tell them how you came off my reputation cindy how all women are nothing cindy
36:03cindy was associated with us and that made mtv think well okay here's cindy she's going into this
36:09other genre let's work with this other genre as well this week on mtv the brawl we did two television
36:17shows on mtv got great ratings for mtv and it was a great storyline i challenge you you fat bag
36:24of
36:24wings at that time women's wrestling was
36:29de classe in a de classe business and so i thought i'll have cindy connect with one of our female
36:37performers that'll make that division mean more
36:44cindy rector was the choice to represent cindy i just got a call from her out of the blue
36:51asking if i could represent her in the ring and i said sure
36:57managing the challenger cindy
37:04there was a buzz in the arena and it was because of her involvement
37:11at this point many of my friends we were wrestling fans we liked the whole tongue in
37:18cheek aspect of it like here's a mainstream sports guy and now he's lending his voice
37:24to introducing hulk hogan and rowdy rowdy piper and he's doing it straight thank you howard this
37:30is indeed an honor it was funny i loved it
37:46i had made friends with mr t mr t was white hot at the time just really on fire so
37:54you bring the
37:55celebrity into our world to have this partnership with mtv it was quite a step up from what we had
38:10been doing mtv was red hot back then so this product that vince mcmahon put together just wasn't in the
38:17back rooms of people that smoke cigars i mean this was getting to be mainstream it changed wrestling now
38:24it's it's okay for people to say i watch wrestling andy warhold your impressions of what took place
38:31earlier on here oh i'm speechless uh it's just so exciting i just don't know what to say
38:37i don't think it's over i think we have just seen the tip of the iceberg
38:43at that time the business was a growing leaps in balance and i enjoyed putting in the work but
38:50my wife finally you needed a vacation so i went to the caribbean someplace for for two days
38:57i came back the next day and announced we're gonna have one big event a year just like the super
39:01bowl and we're gonna call it wrestlemania she turned to me she said you weren't relaxing you
39:07weren't enjoying any of that at all you were thinking about business on sunday afternoon march 31st
39:13it's wrestlemania mr t risks it all wrestling for the first time teaming up with champion hulk hogan
39:19you will see the greatest production of wrestling ever in the world wrestling history will be made the
39:25woodstock of professional wrestling wrestlemania was obviously just again common sense there was
39:32a super bowl there were other big combinations of sports and things of that nature so why wouldn't
39:37we have one big end of the season type deal wrestlemania wrestlemania wrestlemania maybe we
39:44could take this one huge event and put it on what was known as closed circuit there are going to
39:49be
39:49over a million people watching on closed circuit television all over the united states here
39:54closed circuit was simply a very large projector projecting on a screen in an arena what you were
40:01presenting and you paid money as if it were a live event to come in and watch that concept today
40:06sounds ridiculous but that's the way it was then closed circuit television every major city in the
40:13united states not only that jack but it's going to 24 foreign countries on big screen the hype worked so
40:21well that hulk hogan and mr t have been granted the ultimate yuppie honor co-hosting saturday night live
40:27mr t and hulk hogan we got a really big match coming up madison square garden wrestlemania that
40:35is so in terms of publicity to wrestlemania you wanted to invite the media as much as you possibly could
40:43we had an event in madison square garden this isn't really wrestling this is wrestling and john
40:49stossel from one of the networks wanted to interview some of our performers john stossel's there under the
40:54promise that he wants to find out if hulk hogan's really as popular as the new york times said and
41:00as we're walking he goes do you guys use razor blades to bleed and i said are you kidding me
41:05isn't
41:05that kind of masochistic my head was already carved up from the last couple weeks you know man i make
41:10a
41:10beeline to vince i say vince this guy is not here to find out how popular hulk hogan is he's
41:18here to
41:18expose the wrestling business if vince come into the dressing room and he said there was a reporter
41:24here that running around acid wrestler is wrestling fake fans i'm afraid i have to tell you it is fake
41:31he's i wish somebody do something with that guy i did not hear vince mcmahon say anything about putting
41:39him in his place that's verbiage i never heard he didn't tell it us to do it but he said
41:45i wish
41:46someone would take care of that guy and he walked out the dressing room and there's a restaurant
41:52by the name of david schultz decided he would step into the shot i think this is fake you think
41:57it's
41:58fake out of nowhere david schultz just slaps the crap under stossel
42:08do you remember vince's reaction to john getting hit we're all celebrating not just vince everybody
42:16i mean david was getting pets on the back people were banning drinks well at the time we were very
42:22protective of the business because wrestling is not fake it's predetermined and it's exhibition but i can
42:28tell you in the last 10 years i've had 23 surgeries in 10 years so if that's fake please explain
42:35it to
42:35me i didn't get the memo at the time you got to realize you know david was protecting the business
42:41we loved it until the lawsuit came down that's when the hit the fan how is it physically a doctor
42:49now
42:49says i have ear damage that's probably permanent mainstream culture was coming to pro wrestling but
42:56pro wrestling wasn't quite ready for prime time you see a similar thing on the richard belzer show
43:01when hulk hogan who's the most media ready of anybody in that crew finds himself in this incredibly
43:09bizarre and unfortunate situation well you know apparently you don't know what's going on man
43:13you must have done well let me i'll lay it out for you little dude let me tell you okay
43:17you know mr
43:19this is tough to take when people are trying to undermine our business and the thing is i fear no
43:24man
43:24i believe you can you dig it i can dig it twice are you a man what do you think
43:28i really don't know
43:28you want to step up like when richard belzer says hey put one of those wrestling moves on me
43:35well you just tell me brother when you want to quit squealing all right
43:39brought him over and i just left him in the front chin lock
43:42how about it t keep like that for a little while
43:46when i let him go he fell and hit his head
43:51bells are just flopped and hulk thought it was a pratfall in actuality he was hurt
44:02he hit his head when he fell and it was bleeding this was not good i sued mr t i
44:08sued hulk hogan i
44:09sued vince mcmahon i sued the world wrestling federation i sued them all yeah vince wasn't
44:14real happy with me we were at a very very vulnerable stage with wrestlemania one for me to be going
44:20around choking people out and stuff you know wrestlemania was a big risk vince banked everything
44:26on this wrestlemania being a success he put a lot of money into it the story is if it would
44:31fail he'd
44:31he'd been belly up and you know um it's very possibly true well my parents mortgaged everything
44:38they owned uh to make wrestlemania one happen i was so young i didn't truly understand what that meant
44:47my parents never really took finance in front of us uh but you can feel it you know my dad
44:51would just
44:52keep saying this is going to work and uh you know we're betting a lot on this one you know
44:56at this
44:57point you know i'm a teenager and i'm just like we really didn't have the money to do it and
45:02if it
45:03was a huge failure then we were in trouble i'd say that's an accurate statement welcome everyone
45:10gorilla monsoon here at ringside as the world wrestling federation presents the wrestling extravaganza
45:16of all-time wrestlemania i knew that if we didn't pull this thing off
45:22that we were completely out of business
45:39it was a roll of the dice a big one
45:47but so many things that night went right it was a big success
45:54from ben's perspective you could not hit a bigger home run it really was the sum of all parts
46:01when you think back to wrestlemania one i was trying to make a statement as to what our business
46:06really is we wanted to be all forms of entertainment all rolled into one when you have all these
46:12extraordinary people from all different parts of entertainment combined that is sports entertainment
46:18that's what we're about if there was ever a perfect storm this was it vince was very excited and very
46:26happy you could tell he was vibrating man he was he was on a high he knew we pulled it
46:32off
46:33hulk hogan and mr t in a tag team grudge match they called it wrestlemania the biggest event in pro
46:40wrestling since gorgeous george everybody madison square garden all the way around the world now you
46:45know what it's all about brother so right before the first wrestlemania the whole business was looking
46:50good vince was the strongest but you know there was still all these territories still going on
46:56after wrestlemania won nobody knew it yet and these other promoters didn't know it yet but vince won the
47:01war with that show i don't know if it was good for the industry it was good for me and
47:06my organization
47:07that's all i cared about after wrestlemania whatever city we were in all of a sudden more tv
47:14cameras were everywhere in the buildings and people wanted to do interviews with us it was such a major
47:19success it really just put a skyrocket on the company this whole momentum changed the wrestling business
47:26from star smokers and beer drinkers who want to see violence to having families in the front row that
47:32want to buy a ton of merchandise it definitely made wrestling so mainstream there was no denying that we
47:41we were here to stay
47:47wrestlemania 1 is a huge success it achieves more than vince could have possibly imagined for his company
47:55but with greater success comes greater scrutiny and vince becomes a target
48:01that expression of there's no such thing as bad publicity
48:06that's bs because there is a special investigation has turned up allegations that could outrage the
48:12biggest wrestling fan a legal fight is in store for the head of the world wrestling federation it's a
48:17scandal that threatens to knock him right out of the ring right on the heels of this huge success
48:23vince finds himself caught up in a series of scandals that threatened up in his entire world
48:29my world's imagination that's the right that's the right that's the right that's the right that's the right
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