>>11713186Vince's career has been dominated by decline. He got lucky being born a McMahon, and thereby inheriting both the most profitable territory and Andre for a pittance fee, which in turn allowed him to purchase everyone else's talent and pay for gaudy celebrity shows to help build his brand. Once he accidentally succeeded on the back of his father and Verne's stars, the promotion entered into constant decline, to the point that Vince couldn't afford water coolers in the office anymore.
Then after he had basically thrown his hands up and resigned himself to being a NE promotion, he got lucky again. Guys like Steve Austin and The Rock got mega over, despite Vince wanting Chilly McFreeze and "Blue Chipper" Rocky Maivia instead.
But soon after that the promotion reverted back to Vince's vision, and constant decline. He's lucky again that his lucky peaks were so high that even two decades of steadily climbing down wasn't enough to destroy it. Even now, twenty years later, his biggest attractions are people he bought ready-made like Hulk Hogan, or people who became stars only after he gave up like Stone Cold or The Rock. Imagine Wrestlemania 50 and trying to actually book a main event around Kevin Owens dragging his fifty year old fat ass back to a ring. Couldn't sell out a gym.
