Vince McMahon Add to My Celebs Age 66 Birthday Aug. 24th, 1945 Born in Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA Height 6' 2"

Vince McMahon's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) WWE Raw Vince McMahon Celebrity Deathmatch Vince McMahon WWE Saturday Night's Main Event Vince McMahon WWE Confidential Vince McMahon Stripperella Dirk McMahon XFL Vince McMahon 10 Things Every Guy Should Experience Vince McMahon Tuesday Night Titans Himself - H… WWF Prime Time Wrestling Himself

Main Movie Roles 2009 - WWE: Allied Powers - The World's Greatest Tag Teams 2002 - WWE - TLC: Tables Ladders Chairs 1999 - Beyond the Mat 1986 - Ruthless People

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

In the world of sports and sports entertainment, few promoters have been as successful as Vincent K. McMahon. Born August 24, 1945, to second- generation wrestling promoter Vincent J. McMahon, the young Vince eventually transformed his father's regional wrestling promotion, the northeastern U.S.'s World-Wide Wrestling Federation (later World Wrestling Federation, or WWF), into a worldwide success. Vince, who attended Fishborne Military School as a youth, was a star wrestler in high school. He eventually graduated from East Carolina University with a degree in marketing. By the early 1970s, the younger Vince convinced his father to hire him as promoter for his company, Capitol Wrestling Corp. (which promoted wrestling events as the WWF) He promoted his first WWF wrestling card in 1971 (in Bangor, Maine); the event was a rousing success, and started Vince Jr.'s rise to professional wrestling glory. In 1972, the then 27-year-old McMahon began providing play-by-play commentary for the WWF's weekly syndicated program; at the same time, he helped increase market clearances for the WWF's syndicated programs from nine northeastern U.S. stations (in 1972) to more than triple that by 1980. In 1982, the younger Vince purchased the Capitol Wrestling Corp. from his ailing father (he died in 1984), and began planning a vision to become the world's largest and most successful wrestling enterprise by giving the WWF a much broader audience. McMahon accomplished that through combining the traditional sport of wrestling with elements from the entertainment world (hence the term, sports entertainment); and giving the promotion a national audience (by promoting WWF events and selling airtime to local stations nationwide; airing weekly programs and pay-per-view events on cable and satellite TV). He also initiated one of the first successful major wrestling events, 1985's WrestleMania. However, McMahon's ride to success hasn't always been smooth -- in the early 1990s, allegations of steroid use among top superstars and other misconduct within the WWF nearly ruined Vince and his company. Also, ventures into the realms of bodybuilding (the World Bodybuilding Federation) and professional football (the XFL) failed miserably. For years, McMahon was engaged in a bitter ratings and promotions war with Ted Turner's wrestling ventures (the last being World Championship Wrestling (WCW); it was a battle Turner commanded at one point. McMahon eventually won the battle and today enjoys one of the world's most successful entertainment dynasties. His family -- wife, Linda; son, Shane, and daughter-in-law Marissa; and daugher Stephanie -- all play key roles in the family venture. McMahon is recognized today by many -- supporters and foes alike -- as a fearless and visionary promoter who turned the regional wrestling promotion WWF into a global sensation.


TRIVIA:

• Father in-law of 'Paul Levesque' (qv), a.k.a "Triple H".
• Son of 'Vincent McMahon' (qv).
• Is dyslexic.
• Almost every match that he has been involved in is usually a match with no rules, like a street fight or a steel cage match or an I quit match (since McMahon is not a very well trained wrestler).
• Worth $650 million USD.
• Former WWF Champion
• The first WWE personality to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was awarded/placed on Friday March 13, 2008 and sits adjacent to 'Kermit the Frog' (qv)'s star.
• Both _WrestleMania IV (1988) (V)_ (qv) and _WrestleMania V (1989) (TV)_ (qv) were held in Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, NJ. When WrestleMania magazine asked 'Donald Trump' what the best part of the show was, he replied, "Getting to know Vince McMahon". At Madison Square Garden, when Trump was asked why he was sitting front row at a WWF house show, he replied, "Because I love the action and I'm a great friend of Vince's".

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