One of the longest standing veterans in the company has his say on Vince McMahon’s ability as a booker.
Kane, real name Glenn Jacobs, has been a member of the WWE roster since the early 90’s, but it wasn’t till he donned the mask of The Big Red Machine that he truly became a superstar. Of course, the storyline and booking was all from the mind of one Vincent Kennedy McMahon. Nowadays, Kane is the mayor of his hometown, which isn’t Part’s Unknown by the way.
While speaking on Honest Offense with Eric Cervone, Kane talked about McMahon’s business skills. He also said that Vince McMahon has weird ESP when it comes to trends in pro wrestling.
“You look at pay-per-view, if you go to www.payperview.com, you get redirected to WWE. Vince did not invent pay-per-view, but you can make an argument that he was the guy that perfected it. He was ahead of the curve there. We had a huge presence on the internet in 1995, before anyone really knew what the internet was. We were doing chat rooms and all sorts of stuff. Then, you look at the app that came out, which was kind of not great, but he recognized before a lot of people did that folks were migrating away from their TV and to their computer and now they are migrating from their computer to a handheld device. When the app came out, we were like, ‘we’re behind the curve.”
“I remember, the stock sunk, ‘Vince McMahon is an idiot,’ people were talking about suing. Now, the company is making more money than ever. Vince is not a huge technophile, I don’t even know if he can login to his own email, but he doesn’t have to. All he has to do is see where the trends are going and he gets ahead of them, everyone thinks he’s crazy, sure enough, he’s making all the money.
That’s his true brilliance. He can figure out where entertainment, technology, and delivery is going and he ends up getting there first. It’s like he has a weird ESP about it.”
Kane on Vince McMahon’s Booking
What do you make of Kane’s comments? Is Vince channelling ESP? It would certainly be a fun scenario but Vince McMahon probably has people being told by other people telling him what to do in terms of trends.
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