“He wasn’t really fond of professional wrestling” (Exclusive)

Former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon has been synonymous with professional wrestling for most of his career. The 80-year-old owned WWE for over four decades and was the driving force behind making the promotion into the global juggernaut that we see today.

Veteran journalist Bill Apter recently made a shocking revelation about Vince McMahon, stating that he wasn’t really fond of professional wrestling. For generations, WWE had been owned by the McMahon family before it was merged with the Endeavor Group, so that makes Apter’s statement extremely intriguing.

He was talking on the latest episode of The Wrestling Time Machine on Sportskeeda WrestleBinge, where he stated that everybody he spoke to backstage said the same thing about Vince. He heaped praise on the former WWE owner and said that nobody could promote wrestling the way he did, despite not being fond of the sport.

“Nobody could promote it the way he did. He caught lightning in the bottle, and he knew what to do with it. But everybody I talked to, even the guys that worked backstage and all that, just said he wasn’t really fond of professional wrestling, but look what he did to it,” Apter said.

Vince McMahon bought WWE from his father, Vince McMahon Sr., in the 1980s and took things up a notch. Shortly after taking over full control of the company, he came up with the Showcase of the Immortals, WrestleMania. He made it the grandest event of the year, and it is something that’s still going on every year, for the last 40 years.

It was through his genius and business acumen that the company has managed to stay at the top of the business, where many others have come and gone trying to oust WWE from the top spot.

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