It took a degree in Business Administration/Marketing at East Carolina University, followed by several unproductive years selling adding machines and ice-cream accessories, before Mr. McMahon convinced his father to bring him into the family business. Strangely enough, he'd spend less than a year learning the ropes as a promoter when the senior McMahon "promoted" him as a match announcer, only moments before a show in Hamburg, Penn. For more than 20 years, Mr. McMahon would remain behind the mic, even after buying the World Wrestling Federation from his father in 1982 and taking it to unprecedented levels. To this day, many out-of-work regional promoters maintain that he continued doing in-ring play-by-play only to smokescreen what he was accomplishing outside the squared circle.
he truth is, the Chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment couldn't make a global multimedia juggernaut without breaking a few companies. So he broke all of them, and took great satisfaction in devouring any wrestling promotion that refused to "join" WWE. As Sgt. Slaughter puts it, "He screwed everybody. That was the part of him that wanted to be the best there is."
Mr. McMahon admits to feeling a tad remorseful after acquiring his last, and greatest, threat—World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the seemingly "unbeatable" organization bankrolled by billionaire Ted Turner—simply because he missed the struggle. So in 2002 he decided to split Raw and SmackDown into separate brands, effectively creating his own competition.
Greenwich, Conn.
Chairman and CEO of WWE; WWE Championship; Royal Rumble winner (1999)
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