The WrestleMania concept itself is also famously a Vince McMahon brainchild.
What really makes McMahon interesting, though, is that unlike other corporate executives, he’s spent a large portion of his career also playing an on-air character on WWE programming.
While the 80s and 90s saw multiple large companies battle for wrestling industry supremacy, since the the early 2000s, there’s really only been one big game in town: WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment), founded and still run by colorful billionaire Vince McMahon.
The WWE empire has grown large enough under McMahon — and his family, most of whom help him run it — to support its own streaming service WWE Network, which boasts nearly 2 million subscribers worldwide.