I thoroughly enjoyed this series and only wish we could have had a few more questions with Vince after the sexual allegations went public. I showed quite a bit of this to my daughter, who I've been trying to explain the Mr McMahon character to after the fact of her hearing about the allegations. Not an easy task to get her to understand the "line-bending" McMahon has done over the years to have people never know where the line ends for Vince and begins with Mr McMahon.
I myself have some issues with a lot of what has been alleged. For me, it's important to let the government complete its investigation before we can clearly form an opinion on this. I know the character is a complete ass, but I am not sure about the man himself. If that stuff is true, I'd like to see him in jail.
I should point out, as a 40+ year wrestling fan who started watching as a kid on my dad's shoulders, that I've always had personal issues with how the WWF killed the territories, McMahon, personally. My dad and I used to go all the time (Mid-Atlantic/Jim Crockett Promotions), and it is something I held dear to my heart.
I too feel as though we need to not jump the gun as far as these accusations are concerned. I'm going to definitely state that I believe McMahon 100% but I do know that there are a lot of people that see an opportunity to get some sort of payout from an extremely wealthy person and feel as though they have the leverage to do exactly that. I don't think McMahon will see any jail for this but like you, if he really did abuse the hell out of everyone then he needs to face the same sort of justice that you or I would if we were to do the same thing.
I never got to experience the territories like you did because I lived in a place that wasn't part of any of them. But I bet that would have been wild especially if there was some sort of cross promotion. I recall hearing about and instance where they took Ric Flair down to I think Cuba or something like that and Flair was originally scripted to win in that territory, but as the match went on it became evident to the people in charge, and also to Flair, that if he did win that there was a really good chance the people in attendance would riot or maybe kill Flair. They were able to communicate in the ring and Flair lost the match to avoid actual real violence.
With Vince taking over everything a lot of the allure and fun of the various competing territories is lost and the territories that do exist are so low budget that they seem kind of sad. I don't even know what territory NWA was, but I experienced them through TBS, which was a free channel for families like mine that didn't even have cable.
I was glued to the screen every time it was on at the bizarre 5 minutes past the hour that TBS started all of their shows. It was a gimmick to get people to go to the events though because they would frequently "run out of time" for the broadcast and we at home would have to wait until a magazine came out to even know who won the match. No internet times were actually kind of fun, weren't they?
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