Vince McMahon Not Fond of The Wrestler Movie
Vince McMahon is said to be not very fond of The Wrestler movie and all the hype it is getting. In fact he even tried to persuade Hall of Fame legend Ric Flair not to appear at the premiere of the film and on a recent episode of ECW he instructed Striker to put down the movie.
There are two trains of thought here. The first is that its an outside wrestling product that is getting more mainstream Hollywood press than Vince’s WWE. We all know Vince wants to be the dominate leader in the genre and is trying his best to get mainstream recognition, so when some film about wrestling that he isn’t part of gets tipped for Oscars, he obviously doesn’t want to acknowledge it.
The other reason is that he thinks it exposes a lot of the negative aspects of the business that he’s been trying to put behind him since the Benoit tragedy. This movie will ultimately be seen by the masses and despite all of JR’s blogs downplaying it, Vince doesn’t want business to be shown in a negative light or want the WWE to be affected by the film.
Despite this, all of the wrestlers and legends that have seen the film praise it for its realism and emotion, which is probably the main issue here. Wrestling is not always a nice sport and the blame will always be given to Vince.
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So let me get this straight, if Vince catches anyone of his wrestlers talking good about the Wrestler movie they will probably get fired. Vince doesn’t like anything that supposely exposes the wrestling business. Is Vince hiding something or what? First he didn’t like that wrestling show that Hogan had and now he doesn’t like this new wrestling movie. Too bad Vince couldn’t stop neither show or movie from being viewed by the public. Vince give it a rest, you can’t always have your way.
He wouldn’t fire them, that’s not practical. I’m sure he understands that wrestlers will enjoy it. I think he secretly enjoys it, but from a business standpoint he sees it harming his.
This is a business decision Vince is making to try and protect his product. The bad part about it is by protesting it, it is drawing more attention to it, thus why we read the article and now are giving our 2cents. Honestly I hadn’t even heard of the movie, but now I am curious. Good job Vince. Sometimes in business you have to let time prove what is true, unless you have been feeding the public lies for so long. At some point, things will come back to haunt you. I wished I felt sorry for him, because I don’t. I feel sorry for the many wrestlers families that deal with the side effects that the sport has on their life (steriods), i.e. Benoit.
Who gives a crap what Vince thinks of this movie. he is just mad that he is not making any money off of it and it will be better than any of the corny 80’s action movies he puts out.
vince is just growing more and more worried about people seeing the negative side of the sport, and he is a major part of the negative. vince has always given lies, and will stab you in the back to protect himself or to simply throw his power around. it’s too bad some company {you listening biscoff} can’t come up and bury him. what goes around comes around, right?
If Vince isn’t ‘fond of’ The Wrestler, then why is there one of the worst storylines ever involving HBK and JBL on Raw right now trying to make HBK be like ‘The Wrester’?
The economic crisis is different from a washed up old has been wrestler. Granted he may be trying to tap in to the same emotion, but it is not the same.