Vince McMahon was never a good promoter, he was simply the luckiest, and he spent most of his career on the decline from previous bouts of luck. He got lucky in the 80s with Andre, a star he inherited, and Hogan, a star he purchased ready-made from AWA, along with most of his roster. He was hugely successful for a few years, and then began a steady nonstop decline from that lucky peak well into the 90s, where he got lucky again with Steve Austin and The Rock - two performers he wanted to turn into "the ringmaster" or "chilly mcfreeze" and "the blue chipper" btw - and had some more enormous success, and has been steadily declining from that second lucky peak ever since, before gracelessly retiring. I can't think of a single star he really made, Hogan and Andre were bought, and Austin and Rock happened despite him, not because of him. The closest thing to a real Vince star is Cena, who largely killed the business and only seems like a star to people who are so zoomer they think the valley is the peak. Bischoff, Heyman, Cornette were all better than Vince, the only difference being that Vince was born a step away from the finish line thanks to his father owning the big money regional promotion, and a little bit of luck.