America would say so, but it stands to question whether or not the WWE would cooperate in such an endeavor without heavy oversight.
Perhaps that’s the story a film should cover.
Whatever those reasons were, it kept the WWE from inducting him into its Hall of Fame until several years after his death in 2011.
Vince McMahon’s relationship with Macho Man was incredibly strained throughout much of the wrestler’s later years, and the reasons behind why aren’t explicitly clear.