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Vince McMahon had been the creative in charge of WWE for over four decades, and he stepped down from his role in 2022 after announcing his retirement. He also sold WWE to the TKO group. Triple H, his son in law, is the present creative in charge of WWE, who is managing the creative department of WWE as the Chief Content Officer.
McMahon started managing WWE in the early 1980s, as he inherited from his father, Vince McMahon Sr. His grandfather Jess McMahon had been the original founder of WWE. His invention, the Capital Wrestling Corporation, back in 1952, later became WWE. But without any doubt, the promotion saw most success under Vincent K. McMahon, or simply Vince McMahon.
Ken Shamrock shares massive praise for Vince McMahon
When he took charge of the promotion, it was just another professional wrestling promotion of America, which he made the best wrestling promotion in the whole world. WWE's success in the 90s is the most notable of them when the promotion mastered WCW during the famous Monday Night Wars, and ultimately, McMahon ended up purchasing his competition.
Vince McMahon had been in charge of WWE for over 4 decades
He also created a lot of top stars, including the likes of the Undertaker and John Cena. One of the biggest attractions of the Attitude Era WWE was Ken Shamrock who was the big prospect at that time recently talked about the creative genius of Vince McMahon and called him the greatest of all time. Speaking with "Wrestling Life Online" recently, he stated the following;
He announced his retirement in 2022
"Vince, which again, people have their thoughts about Vince, but Vince is a genius when it comes to pro wrestling. He was able to do so many things in different times in different eras to inject WWF back into the mainstream audience to where it became popular again because so many times, 10, 15 years, they take dips and a lot of people don't come back from it ...
"But Vince was able to always change the culture to where he would see what's going on in the world and what the vibes are and to try to build characters and matches around what people want to see. And he did it better than anyone and to keeping it going as long as he did was just incredible." Said Ken Shamrock.
h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
