by Everyone was ready for an explosive NETFLIX Documentary on WWE Owner Vince McMahon. When you factor in all the drama surrounding his life over the last 18 months, it would only make sense for us to think we would get some inside scoops and also what may have finally led to his demise.
Sadly, 99% of the 6 episodes had already been covered over the course of the last 20 years of documentaries on the WWE Network, or detailed at nauseam in a Bruce Pritchard, Jim Cornette or Eric Bischoff podcast. This was no different then a A&E documentary, or at worst, a Dark Side of the Ring Episode.
Again, people were talking about how this documentary was going to ruin Vince McMahon, honestly, all it did was give me more respect for him when you find out about all the crap he had to deal with. Nothing was new here, and when you factor in 99% of what they covered is easily available on the WWE Network via Peacock, then what are we really talking about here?
All this documentary truly did was explain how Vince McMahon jumpstarted an entire industry that was stuck in the dark ages. Survived several false claims against him for sexual misconduct and steroid distribution and how he even defeated an evil billionaire. What’s wrong with that? The producers did a horrible job with this documentary.
In case you want to save yourself 6 hours, here is the premise of everything that went down, again, stuff that has been covered from front to back, about 300x in the last 20 years.
Episode One – Vinnie takes the company over from is Father Jesse and decides to go national. They discuss the national expansion along with McMahons rough childhood before going to live with his birth father.
Episode Two – The Ring Boys Scandal mixed in a bit with the Rita Marie female ref scandal and just some other woman scandals involving Jimmy Snuka and a few others. Again, stories told to death about 100x.
Episode Three – The curtain call with Kayfabe explained, the steroid trail and Hogan leaving for WCW as the Monday Wars begin. Again, the Monday Night Wars is covered, a subject beaten to death at this point! Ohh,,, and the formation of the nWo. Because, you know, that has never been talked about.
Episode Four – The Montreal Screwjob fall out, the Attitude Era and Owen Harts tragic fall. Again, all subjects….. well, I think you get it by this point.
Episode Five – Hey, did you know the WWE is a family run business? Well, it is,,,,,,,,, Oh, and Vince and Shane didn’t want Stephanie to date HHH at first. Again, if you didn’t already know that, you wouldn’t be watching this to begin with. But, we spend 60 minutes hearing about it anyway.
Episode Six – It covered everything from The Undertaker losing at WrestleMania 30, to the Chris Benoit tragedy. Again, maybe I’m tone deaf, but again, there wasn’t anything shocking or revealing about this documentary at all. I have to wonder if the creators of it are kicking themselves for not waiting 6 more months to finish it, and actually include Janel Grant drama.
The pictures were cool that we never saw before, but outside of that, this was a disaster!
