Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Kane who is also a former three times World champion in WWE recently talked about the owner of WWE Vince McMahon and pressed him. He addressed him as an Entrepreneurial genius.
Kane started his WWE career in 1997 after a number of spells for different promotions including WWE under different gimmicks. From the very first day of his WWE debut he became a huge attraction among the WWE fans. His debut is still considered as the best ever debut in the history of professional wrestling.
Kane Praises Vince McMahon, Calls Him Entrepreneurial Genius
He won his first WWE Championship in 1998 but his reign is considered as one of the worst in the history of WWE since it lasted for only one day. It took 10 long years for him to win his next World Championship that was the ECW Championship in 2008 at WrestleMania 24. This one was a better reign than he is previous one.
In 2010 he won his third World Championship that was the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. This one is considered as his best world title reign. Kane is mostly famous for putting over new stars. His career was more sacrificial than successful. In 2021 he had been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
Kane who is also a former three times World champion in WWE recently spoke to Honest Offense with Eric Cervone where he talked about the owner of WWE Vince McMahon and pressed him. He addressed him as an Entrepreneurial genius. He said;
“You look at pay-per-view, if you go to www.payperview.com, you get redirected to WWE. Vince did not invent pay-per-view, but you can make an argument that he was the guy that perfected it. He was ahead of the curve there. We had a huge presence on the internet in 1995, before anyone really knew what the internet was. We were doing chat rooms and all sorts of stuff.
“Then, you look at the app that came out, which was kind of not great, but he recognized before a lot of people did that folks were migrating away from their TV and to their computer and now they are migrating from their computer to a handheld device. When the app came out, we were like, ‘we’re behind the curve.’ The reason for that was, they were thinking about WWE Network, which originally was going to be a cable network, and then he decided ‘we’re going put it online, move all the pay-per-views to a monthly subscription,’
“we all thought he was crazy for that because pay-per-view made up half the companies revenue. He was completely changing the business model. I remember, the stock sunk, ‘Vince McMahon is an idiot,’ people were talking about suing. Now, the company is making more money than ever. Vince is not a huge technophile, I don’t even know if he can login to his own email, but he doesn’t have to. All he has to do is see where the trends are going and he gets ahead of them, everyone thinks he’s crazy, sure enough, he’s making all the money.”
“That’s his true brilliance. He can figure out where entertainment, technology, and delivery is going and he ends up getting there first. It’s like he has a weird ESP about it.”
Quotes via Fightful