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Vince McMahon Rare Interview - never before seen trying to ban the World Wrestling Federation
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2016
- Vince McMahon Rare Footage - Trying to Ban WWF World Wrestling Federation
Government trying to Ban WWF. Interview with Vince McMahon explaining that the World Wrestling Federation is sports entertainment.
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It is really weird to see the original WWF/E headquarters prior to Titan Towers. It just shows you how much and how quickly Vince grew the Federation to become such a huge global entity during the 80's. The guy wasn't fucking about.
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Greenwich, CT
Not hard when you use daddies funds and company
@analiysanchez9949, he didn't use Daddy's fund. He bought it from his daddy, from the money he earned in 2 million and made it from a NWA territory wrestling to the global monster it is today worth billions of dollars. If his daddy was running wwe, it would be out of business a long time ago and wwe and wrestling in whole won't be global as it is. Wanna know who runs a company with daddy's money???It's Tony Khan.
@@rjuniverse7289 I agree with you but seriously, where would Vince McMahon Jr be if his dad was not a wrestling promoter? Still in a trailer park living in North Carolina would be my guess. Every business venture he attempted that wasn’t wwe flopped massively
@@analiysanchez9949 yes, because vince mcmahon was made for wrestling. It doesn't matter if Vince's father was already in wrestling. The thing is WWE is global today because of Vince Mcmahon and Vince didn't grew up with his father, he was living separately from him, but then he wanted to venture into the wrestling business since his childhood. SO, he went to his father and started to accompany him on the journey. Vince Mcmahon Sr didn't handed the company to his son. Vince Mcmahon worked as an announcer then commentator before he finally bought the company from his father in 2 million dollars. Wrestling business was always his passion and love. There are many promoter who were handed the wrestling companies and were richer than Vince, but nobody made it global like Vince did. It's because Vince knew the wrestling business like nobody others.
Who is a Senator to ban anything?....This is supposed to be a free society, isn't it??...I think sometimes these politicians get confused on that point....
Bernstein is a joo
The guy trying to ban them would of had a stroke watching an episode of Raw in 98
then came 1997... oh brother!
What happened in 97?
@@chatochafa130 the Attitude Era was born.
False I say 1996
@@mryes413the break out year of Ahmed Johnson wasn’t the attitude era
@@mryes413 Was thinking the same. I remember the Brian Pillman segment when he drew a gun on Stone Cold.
I didn't know he was already using the "Sports Entertainment" term... Cool upload, thx
He essentially did it to technically get away from scrutiny from the commissions.
Abe Bernstein seems to know a thing or two about needing to be dirty and underhanded to success.
He was a politician they’re the dirtiest of them all
@@dxcaprice88 Not just a politician, a lawyer-turned-politician--and in New York, of all places. Bernstein sounds like a scumbag. By his logic, he should ban football, as that has more in common with Roman gladiators than wrestling has. Additionally, did he ever try to ban boxing? That's far worse than wrestling.
shyster 101
"We don't have guns" stone cold breaks into Brian's house....
Well not for at least a decade after this interview
Shiltz az well, I was just watching that a few hours ago lol
Stone Cold holds Vince at gunpoint in the middle of the ring
Stone cold hold my beer 😂😂
That was the FIRST thing I thought of too!!
“We don’t use guns…”
Then Stone Cold Steve Austin shows up…..
Back when the head office wasn't Titan Tower (which I believe he was having built in the late 80s).
It opened in May 1991.
And now they're in a new building.@@SilverPlaqueVII
He didnt have titan towers built. It existed before WWF moved in.
Is this the first time Vince came out with Sports Entertainment? This was back in 85.
Was this after the 20/20 episode when he was asked to elaborate on what they did if it wasn’t sports and he famously answered I don’t know?
No he was using the term "sports entertainment"since 1982
This definately was 85, Vince talks about Hogans cartoon series.
I know he was using that term to avoid the athletic commission trying to steal his money... I didn't realize he was saying the actual term though way back then
@@philipdefibaugh5683 - The note sheet the lawyer is creating definitely said there was an October meeting scheduled for 1985
Vince McMahon may be the real “World’s Most Interesting Man”
fact
I was just thinking that the other day. He accomplished so much in his lifetime!!! Revolutionized (literally) a sport that's had a history dating back some centuries. Took a respected (by the locals) but seen by the masses as a "carney" sport (pro-wrestling to how we understand it today began as a circus feature), and merged it with the entertainment aspect, something that was very wild-eyed for the time. It could have easily flopped.
The fact that they pushed the "entertainment"aspect even further years later is AMAZING
Because the none fans always gonna say wrestling is fake so to shut em up they call it sports entertainment
@@YousefTubenot true at all actually. I don’t know all the details but wwe got around paying certain taxes and fees by admitting the matches are worked and they are sports entertainment and not taking part in real competitive matches
40 year old Vince looks so young here.
Wow, he looks so old now
Dude is nearly 80. Meanwhile look at Biden. He can barely think.
@@JuneCarpenter3540 is not old 😅
Probably wasn't using much drugs at the time
McMaaan. Lol
Coincidentally, you would see the knives and guns with the attitude era. And then the family environment came during the PG era.
*came back
Also coincidentally, the knives and guns and the Attitude Era is basically what saved McMahon and the WWE's ass from going out of business. Had he stayed the course theres a good chance pro wrestling would be a thing of the past as we know it.. life's funny how it works huh
“We don’t have knives”
*Undertaker about to embalm Stone Cold*
“We don’t have guns.”
*Stone Cold breaking into Brian Pilmans house*
“We don’t have g(r)ape.”
*Heidenreich & Michael Cole.*
That wouldn't happen for another ten years after this interview, besides why is there this thing that wrestling as a form of entertainment can't borrow from popular TV shows and movies I don't get that.
@@cl-vision5029 I’m not condemning it but laughing at the fact that WWF/WWE literally had those very things in its show not to far from this interview lol
Which ends up proving the point of the WWF critic.
Kane and Michael cole?? You mean heidenreich
@@Squeakypickles619Dammit! I wanted to correct him!
@@Squeakypickles619 oh yeah 😅.
I’m old now. Damn brain confused the two of them lol
Early 90s wrestling was the most family oriented wrestling there was, what did this politician find so offensive about it?
Doink.
Once you understand how politicians really are, anything with good energy is hated
Hulk hooooooGaannnn!!!! Arrrgggghhhh
old people
That you dont realise this was the early 80s? Even more family friendly.
Vince said wholesome... that's wholesome😂
2:09 How long after this did *Brian Pillman* have a *gun* on RAW? 🤣🤣🤣
Copy Imitation 11 years.
@@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother so not THAT long then haha
Austin: "hold my beer"
@@c0pyimitati0nare you thick? 11 years is a little while
I can't believe McMahon called it Wrestling,
Immediately after the interview, Vince ran into his private washroom and rinsed his mouth with bleach.
It's weird, or interesting, that the World Trade Center is referenced. There was a ''wrestling hearing'' on October 8th, 1985 at the World Trade Center. I wonder if there's any video of that?
that's before the attitude era
“Bernstein”
“It’s a very wholesome, family oriented environment...” proceeds with angles like choppy choppy pee pee and Katie Vick in the years to come...
But that was for mature audiences. He didn't claim to be wholesome family oriented in those years.
That was like 15 years after things change it was a wholesale family show at the time
Yeah cuz this is from 98.
Leve$que’$ NECROPHILIA!
@@anish3183 At the time when the WWF was still being pitched to kids and their parents (1991), Vince had a snake bite Randy Savage on the arm.
Never mind The Undertaker putting wrestlers into bodybags.
Yeah, wholesome family entertainment.
Wrestling has been banned at least once in the past in England I believe and it wasn’t until a new prime minister came into power that it was unbanned. Also, Abraham Lincoln was actually a “wrestler” before becoming president. Although he did the more carney type wrestling where he would wrestle bears and stuff. More the feats of strength type of stuff over the really athletic stuff we have today.
I remember when Jim Cornette, announcing on Raw, tried to connect the lineage of the NWA championship to Abraham Lincoln. That was some funny shit.
@@markv1274 I don’t remember that but that’s hilarious! Technically Lincoln did use to wrestle but not nearly the same way we know wrestling today and he has nothing to do with the NWA 😂. He was more of a strong man who would wrestle bears and stuff. Not like a specially trained athlete the way wrestlers are now.
What year is this '85? Premiere of cartoon series ? Ha ha..
"You don't see knives, you don't see guns, you don't see rapes... All of that stuff is kept strictly backstage."
Anyone watching in 24
Ohh yeaaa
So different hearing him without his "Mr.McMahon" booming voice.
McManus? That is how the kicker became famous he is the son of McMahon.
Vince McMahon didn't invent the term "sports entertainment," but he popularized it. Apparently, its origins date back to 1935. Harlem Globetrotters and Roller Derby were called sports entertainment. Rigged or not rigged boxing matches with musical acts, pageantry, and celebrities were considered sports entertainment events. Carnival acts with men "fighting" animals was labeled sports entertainment. That term wasn't super common though. But Vince always considered his product more as sports entertainment than the limiting term "pro wrestling."
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It’s a business, plain and simple.
Lord Alfred Hayes really slimmed down!
Let's be honest, he's the reason sports entertainment or pro wrestling is main stream , and whoever says otherwise is in denial, cause he recognised what it was , if it's not real sports what is it 😁
Patrick Ward he is also allowing his own company to be destroyed with shitty scripting.
@@SandmanFightingSys the profits beg to differ
Hogwash. It was mainstream before him.
Yea ever heard of Gorgeous George! He was in the 50's! He influenced Bob Dylan and James Brown! Vince didn't invent anything except putting wrestling on pay per view!
@@normaningemann3868 What Vince pioneered was a way to get the profits from wrestling all into Vince's pockets.
Nothing wrong with that, but it's what he did.
I bet this senators head blew up when the attitude era came
Jesus. Abes ears are ginormous
1:21! It's the same thing Vince! Get over it!
Sports entertainment like the nfl
Obviously, the lawyer failed to get the wwe banned since vince McMahon & the WWE are still around all these years later, but this lawyer fella has disappeared...hmmm
You think they did him Jimmy Hoffa style?
Young Vince his face look like his son Shane McMahon
Fancy that, a father and son resembling each other...
I'm guessing late 1985 early 1986
This was right before my uncle Vince had Titan Towers built.
the blurrier the video, the more handsome vince looks.
Mcmaaaarn lol
That fuckin clock LOL
The senator is totally whacked. He doesn't get it.
He's dead now, thank the gods.
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Defecating on a woman is NOT a Family Friendly Environment
I was shocked when he did that on TV
Peaceful Connecticut? This Brit has clearly never been to New Heaven.
Additionally, that's where they made the guns in those days, right?
The government worried about TV programming? Tf lol
(Yes, I know y'all will say it's the shit they gotta worry about governing as a result of [supposedly] people watching WWE and "acting a fool", etc, or some shit lmao)
I thought he was gonna say Hustle Loyalty & Respect.
Did you know Rick rude tried to kill donta leggett but Vincent saved his life
and you ppl thought cancel culture was something that was only conceived a few yrs ago.... lol
This guy wouldn’t enjoy 2019 lmao
Then Came King of the Ring 1996
"An old fashioned grunt and groan spectacle "
They sandbagged the WWF with this hit piece
Drugs, Tobacco, Alcohol, sex, and violence sell more than anything in the world so chew on that
It's wholesome family oriented violence. 🤣😆
The criticisms that were made at this time, I don't agree with it for the time period that it was being said, but if the same comments were made in 1998 onward, especially the Attitude Era and Ruthless Aggression Era, I fully agree with the comments being made against the WWF(E). I hated the Attitude Era for making wrestling into everything the haters said it was. But at this time, which looks like the early 1980's, Vince was right to say it's wholesome family entertainment.
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"You don't see"
(Bernstein). Interesting.
Oy vey
>Bernstein
>NY Senator
>lawyer
This guy is complaining that wrestling is teaching people they have to be dirty, as if he weren’t in the most rotten positions a human can be in.
He is dead now. A great thing personal freedom.
You have to be dirty to succeed in this life. Life is BRUTALITY
Trish barks like a dog
Lord alfred hayes bashing the company like that ... wowwww
Dude this guy in the opening looks like his head isn’t attached to his body, some uncanny valley shit.
Why is the 1st guys head looks so big?
Loool
He always had a very simplistic view of his concept of 'sports entertainment' - as if all sports presented in front of crowds weren't entertainment themselves. Wrestling is entertainment, Vince. It always was.
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Macmahon is capitalizing on the decline of wrestling which had to be tranformed to sports entertainment in order to survive. I dont understand why he couldnt exploit something else. He always wanted to do something like Ted Turner did in his life.
@@heb430 What are you talking about? What decline forced the transformation? When? The transformation CAUSED the decline. When things went 100% "Sports-Entertainment", as in his complete vision, no competition, no more "wrestling" people involved, the viewership crashed. Viewers didn't reject wrestling, they rejected what eventually "Sports-Entertainment" evolved into. There are 2 million wrestling fans now that will watch or somehow pay for wrestling. That's his fault. There are tens of millions who used to watch it and would watch it again.
@@chadhartsees Junior this circus was different before Vince. It was just wrestling. Wrestling is gone except for the Olympics. But wrestling would have become s.e. by either Vince, Turner, Bischoff or some other guru or tycoon. It was just a matter of time.If wrestling had prospered to this point, we would see something these zombie fans would be bored of in seconds. Thats because wrestling in its purity is not a product but pure sports. I guess you can say that it was taken over by business practices, marketing, show biz and other pop culture and entertainment influences but if it was left alone it would have been like raw meat. This transfer or makeover happened over 50 years ago.
@@heb430 The olympics? What are you talking about? There was a working formula, from Bill Watts to JCP to McMahon's WWWF to McMahon's WWF pre-1997 that worked and was sustainable. Plenty of "show business" and "entertainment" in the territory, TV, and syndicated TV eras. What there wasn't a lot of? Sloppy story telling, overexposure, and 2 hours of people yelling at each other in a ring while they hold a microphone. The problem is his "Sports-Entertainment" isn't very entertaining.
It's a very family hole sum environment... "Katy Vick".... lmao...cough Attitude Era...Cough edge & Lita in bed..... uhhhhh need I say more? LOL
That was years and years after this interview!
@@analiysanchez9949 Exactly lol he changes it too much.
@@VideoGameXDomain”You don’t see guns.” Remember when Brian Pillman pulled his gun on Steve Austin when he broke into his house? Lol
*wholesome
Do you have the whole show?
Holy fuck, is that Emily Feinberg?!
Wasn't she a model at one time?
1:43/ So I take it this was the Senator who got the ball rolling on the Steroid controversy and indicted McMahon back in 1991?
That piece of sh/t senator is against personal freedom. I'm glad he's dead now. If you don't like it change the channel.
Possibly, yet he didn't live to see it.
How over the top that intro was
All I see is the “ kiss my ass club”
Lol this guy was trying to get wrestling banned in 1985...he probably turned over in his grave during the attitude era.
Attitude Era wwe and wcw was pulling in 10-13 million viewers a week for Raw and Nitro. Every male between 15-25 was wearing a wrestling shirt of some sort. Hell even the Wwe cd of theme music went platinum. No entity even government entity was gonna shut them down. They were making way too much money
Who the fuck is Vince mcmaarm?
That's the correct Irish pronunciation.
Until later..if you know what I mean
What's the difference between a rat and a lawyer? There are some things a rat just won't do.
who the f is abe bernstein?
Was a New York Senator who was Jewish and was Democrat he died in 1990 😮💨
it was wrestling entertainment back in the day....
every thing these are complaining about sounds more like the "attitude" aka "sex" era.
never the less they do have points.
i think people should reconsider wrestling territories again.
There’s a local indy company in most areas, so the territories still exist in some way
Vince is a weird cat? The dude is definitely strange
McManus????
Dick Ebersol looks like Joe Biden
McMarn
Ever watched UFC bud? 2:01
In the 80s? I swear the internet gets dumber
Just giving away all the secrets to the business. What an absolute scumbag thing to do. His father would have been absolutely ashamed to see what he did to the wrestling industry. What a damn shame. 🤦♂️
Yeah people commenting here and the the dumb fans out there think this reduced version of wrestling is 'real'. Its all bells and whistles and horse hockey. Hollywood glitter with tv scripts posing as real wrestling. Some wrestling organizations had to go back to basics by starting from scratch and are the new legitimate promotions.
Who cares it's always been fakish and I've always been entertained
Without Vinnie Mac there’d literally be no wrestling anymore genius
haha the joke is on you now vince
We see your NDA’s. 😏
“You don’t see RAPE” this didn’t age well ….
When was this done?
it aired two weeks ago i think
1985
God forbid anybody have fun in this life.....
"It's grotesque heroes make Mick McManus look like a merchant banker".
Okay... FAKE NEWS!!! I've been watching old British wrestling documentaries lately and Mick McManus is one of the most villainous wrestlers in not just British wrestling history, but one of the most villainous in the history of wrestling. This video is from around October 1985 from what I'm seeing at the 1:56 time mark. I'm sorry, but super goody shoes Hulk Hogan from 1985 is NOT more grotesque than Mick McManus during 1982 (final year before he retired he was being a huge heel to everyone in the ring with him).
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Where's this from??
BBC Newsnight
Perhaps I'm biased, in my perspective,...as I had grown-up in the 70's/80's,...in the epicenter of the WWF market; Central NJ. _However_ ,..."love him" or "hate him", I think that you'd effectively be, a _LIAR_ ,....if you were to argue that Vince McMahon, _ISN'T_ ,...a [business] genius! Indeed, many of the things that he did,...went _WILDLY COUNTER_ to the way the Pro Wrestling industry had been handled/operated,...up to that point. And, granted; many of the tactics he deployed could _very reasonably_ ended in one....getting "UNALIVED" ,.....within many other...."close-to-the-vest",...."industries", but regardless; he _SUCCEEDED_ in virtually _EVERY, RISK/ENDEAVOR_ that he took-on (with the exception of the Snake River Canyon debacle, perhaps! 😜) Indeed,....many of Vince's...."extra curricular activities/behaviours".....are *INDEFENSIBLE* and *UNACCEPTABLE* , to say the least, _BUT_ ; that does _not_ discredit his accomplishments & successes as a businessman who (by many accounts).... _LITERALLY_ turned approximately $1,000,000 or so dollars in the early 1980's,.....to a *_MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR EMPIRE_* ....less than 25 or so years, later!! So, again; perhaps not the most _VIRTUOUS_ ,... _MORALLY-UPRIGHT_ individual that the world of professional wrestling will have ever known, but *_CERTAINLY_* ; probably the most *BRILLIANT* business-minds,...the industry will _EVER, KNOW_ !!
2:10
Katie Vick says hello
Reptilian?