A new report suggests that Vince McMahon recently attempted to buy, and bury the upcoming Netflix documentary “Mr. McMahon.”
There is no denying the massive impact Vince McMahon has had on the professional wrestling industry. He took it from a regional business and turned it into a global brand on par with UFC and the NBA. However, the narrative of his career in the entertainment business has forever changed over the last few years.
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There have long many rumors about the dark side of McMahon for years. Yet, he was always able to limit the negative press. That changed in 2022 when a report revealed some horrifying allegations about his relationship with previous female employees in the company. Yet, he was able to survive the blowback and regain control of the company after stepping away for some time.
Then in 2023 a lawsuit was filed with even more damning allegations that became too much for parent company TKO Group Holdings to deal with and he was permanently forced out. Well before the accusations from a few years ago arrived, there were plans for a Netflix documentary about his life.
Once the highly negative stories emerged that project was sidelined, until recently. Now, “Mr. McMahon is set to release on the streaming giant and is expected to paint a far less favorable picture of the WWE founder. Unsurprisingly, that didn’t sit well with the wrestling mogul and he recently blasted the upcoming series in a public statement.
Vince McMahon tried to use TKO Group Holdings CEO to help bury Netflix documentary
However, well before that, it seems that Vince McMahon tried to block the series from ever seeing the light of day.
“After seeing early footage, he actually tried to buy the project back from Netflix, per two sources familiar,” Matthew Belloni of Puck News wrote in a newsletter this week. “… Vince also had Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, his new partner in TKO, chime in on his behalf, also voicing concern about the doc’s treatment of Vince’s alter ego, ‘Mr. McMahon,’ which ended up being the title of the doc.”
Wrestling Observer reporter Dave Meltzer confirmed the report as well and claimed “I believe last year, he tried to buy the documentary. Basically, buy it to kill it, which a lot of rich people do with unfavorable media at times (h/t NoDQ].”
All six episodes of the “Mr. McMahon” Netflix series are scheduled to premiere on Wednesday morning.
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