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Post by spagett on Jun 1, 2019 17:50:58 GMT -5
Can you imagine another 20 years of Vince at the helm of WWE?
Dear oh dear.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2019 22:47:04 GMT -5
I genuinely don't think WWE could survive 20 more years with Vince on charge. You need to be attracting new fans at some point in a generation worth of time as a company and I just can't see a scenario in which Vince is capable of doing that anymore.
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Post by Heartbreaker on Jun 1, 2019 23:22:20 GMT -5
Did anybody else reading the "he's 70, his mother is 90," bit have visions of the Queen and Prince Charles, or just me? 😂 I think of Mr. Burns and his mother.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 2, 2019 1:34:18 GMT -5
Hey it's quite possible Vince could live to be 90. Good on his mother for being that age and still playing tennis. I think we all can agree that when Vince does pass on it'll be a very sad and heartbreaking day regardless of how out of touch he is. Oh, absolutely. That said, in regards to his mom being 90 - to the best of my knowledge, his mom has not been a 3-hours-of-sleep-a-night workaholic for forty years, with at least one decade full of steroids and probably cocaine.
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Jun 2, 2019 1:37:04 GMT -5
Hey it's quite possible Vince could live to be 90. Good on his mother for being that age and still playing tennis. I think we all can agree that when Vince does pass on it'll be a very sad and heartbreaking day regardless of how out of touch he is. Oh, absolutely. That said, in regards to his mom being 90 - to the best of my knowledge, his mom has not been a 3-hours-of-sleep-a-night workaholic for forty years, with at least one decade full of steroids and probably cocaine. I wonder how much of that aspect of his life is true. How many people can actually function on three hours of sleep on a daily basis for forty years? Respectfully I know everyone is different with how their bodies handle certain "vices". On my end of the spectrum, I can go to bed at 8pm, get a full nights rest, and still wake up exhausted despite getting enough sleep. How in the world is he still even going if he's that sleep deprived?
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 2, 2019 1:44:37 GMT -5
Oh, absolutely. That said, in regards to his mom being 90 - to the best of my knowledge, his mom has not been a 3-hours-of-sleep-a-night workaholic for forty years, with at least one decade full of steroids and probably cocaine. I wonder how much of that aspect of his life is true. How many people can actually function on three hours of sleep on a daily basis for forty years? Respectfully I know everyone is different with how their bodies handle certain "vices". On my end of the spectrum, I can go to bed at 8pm, get a full nights rest, and still wake up exhausted despite getting enough sleep. How in the world is he still even going if he's that sleep deprived? Some people just don't sleep as much as others, but I still imagine he's got to be short changing himself a lot on sleep.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jun 2, 2019 3:03:16 GMT -5
Oh, absolutely. That said, in regards to his mom being 90 - to the best of my knowledge, his mom has not been a 3-hours-of-sleep-a-night workaholic for forty years, with at least one decade full of steroids and probably cocaine. I wonder how much of that aspect of his life is true. How many people can actually function on three hours of sleep on a daily basis for forty years? Respectfully I know everyone is different with how their bodies handle certain "vices". On my end of the spectrum, I can go to bed at 8pm, get a full nights rest, and still wake up exhausted despite getting enough sleep. How in the world is he still even going if he's that sleep deprived? A lot of those high powered, single minded people can, hell that's probably an aspect of how they achieve what they do, Margaret Thatcher used to boast how little sleep she got and she was Prime Minister for 11 years. Steve Jobs was another.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 2, 2019 4:30:36 GMT -5
I'm not Thatcher or McMahon, but I sleep on average 3 to 4&1/2 hours a night. I'll have one day off where I'll get almost exactly six hours every single time, and the other for the week I'll sleep for 7-9 hours. Rest of the week, it's all 3s and 4s.
And I can't help but notice everyone zoned in on the sleep and not the decades of steroids he pumped into himself.
Either way, we're getting off track here. Back to the Mox talks.
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Jun 2, 2019 11:00:35 GMT -5
I'm not Thatcher or McMahon, but I sleep on average 3 to 4&1/2 hours a night. I'll have one day off where I'll get almost exactly six hours every single time, and the other for the week I'll sleep for 7-9 hours. Rest of the week, it's all 3s and 4s. And I can't help but notice everyone zoned in on the sleep and not the decades of steroids he pumped into himself. Either way, we're getting off track here. Back to the Mox talks. Not really getting off track, it's still tied into McMahon and the reality of him being out of touch. Moxley describing the bubble he lives in obviously is very much tied into how workaholics like him function, all we're doing is comparing our seemingly normal existence and questioning how McMahon can still run this empire despite being sleep deprived. It's actually quite fascinating in retrospect. Regardless of the circumstances, it doesn't change the fact that what Moxley said isn't any different than what Batista, Punk, and many others have stated about him.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Jun 2, 2019 13:13:26 GMT -5
Hey it's quite possible Vince could live to be 90. Good on his mother for being that age and still playing tennis. I think we all can agree that when Vince does pass on it'll be a very sad and heartbreaking day regardless of how out of touch he is. Wait, Vince still has a relationship with his biological mother???
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 2, 2019 14:12:27 GMT -5
Hey it's quite possible Vince could live to be 90. Good on his mother for being that age and still playing tennis. I think we all can agree that when Vince does pass on it'll be a very sad and heartbreaking day regardless of how out of touch he is. Wait, Vince still has a relationship with his biological mother??? Why wouldn't he?
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Post by Hypnosis on Jun 17, 2019 10:00:25 GMT -5
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Post by corndog on Jun 17, 2019 10:52:35 GMT -5
Wait, Vince still has a relationship with his biological mother??? Why wouldn't he? In the Playboy magazine interview he strongly alluded to his mother sexually abused him. This is from the interview, talking about his stepfather physically abusing him; PLAYBOY: Was the abuse all physical, or was there sexual abuse, too? MCMAHON: That's not anything I would like to embellish. Just because it was weird. PLAYBOY: Did it come from the same man? MCMAHON: No. It wasn't...it wasn't from the male.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 19, 2019 4:49:18 GMT -5
In the Playboy magazine interview he strongly alluded to his mother sexually abused him. This is from the interview, talking about his stepfather physically abusing him; PLAYBOY: Was the abuse all physical, or was there sexual abuse, too? MCMAHON: That's not anything I would like to embellish. Just because it was weird. PLAYBOY: Did it come from the same man? MCMAHON: No. It wasn't...it wasn't from the male. I could have swore he's specified since then on some point he wasn't referring to his mom and the implication was more on one of her friends, but I could be totally remembering wrong.
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