"Stand Back!"

-"Stand Back!"-
(Vince McMahon, Slammy Awards, 1987)
Vince McMahon is a twisted evil genius.
Part shrewd businessman, part evil mastermind and part total carny. The owner and proprietor of the WWE has built a billion dollar monopoly with his unstoppable drive, ruthless aggression and arrogant pride, all fuelled by a red-hot temper and a constant desire to be the best, always.

McMahon's various tactics and ideas that have gotten him this far can often be questionable at best, whether its buying up everyone elses best stars and shutting them down during the territory era, or whether its his infamous mud-slinging tactics he uses on any and all people who don't see his way, Vince McMahon has a nasty streak in him and is a man who can bear a grudge against an individual for an insanely long time, borderline an obsession.

McMahon however, is also a tireless patriot and humanitarian, ensuring that his global company regularly performs many acts for charities and the armed forces. McMahon is also a complete workaholic and has famously been working for hundreds of hours a week, every week since he first bought the WWE off his father in 1980.
As soon as Vince had control of the company, he took huge steps to take pro-wrestling from the countries many sporting arenas and turn it into a huge, multimedia icon. Vince worked hard to promote wrestling alongside music and movie stars, adding far more pomp and circumstance to wrestler's costumes, characters and entrances. Vince filled his shows with more interviews and wacky skits in an attempt to sell wrestling as a more theatrical production than an athletic contest, which is the way it had been viewed by the public for many years.
This wasn't "Sport" This was "Sports-Entertainment"

Our entry today concerns "The Slammy Awards" Vince's ridiculous idea for a "Grammys" style ceremony to award pointless trophies to his workers for their performances in a selection of terrible wrestling themed music albums that the WWF released in the late 80's.
The ceremonies were long, arduous and interminable and were a perfect example of everything the classic fan of the time hated about Vince's new direction for the sport they loved.
Vince didn't care about the old-timers or their traditions, what's more, he had a message for them, delivered in his own imitable style.

Because if you're going to tell a huge group of powerful and shady promoters that you're here to shut them down and take over their business. You might as well do it in style. So, backed by a twisted, wrestler based version of Jim Henson's Muppets band, McMahon delivered a warning to his opposition. I accept no responsibility for any mental raping experienced while watching this clip.


Total "Drunk dad at a wedding" enjoyment.
Vince McMahon is a man of questionable ethics, die-hard work practices and unforgiving business methods, but damn, the kid can move.