Former WWE superstar Ahmed Johnson claims that Vince McMahon is a racist. What do you think?

No. Vince doesn't want to own TNA (not that it's for sale anyway, which it would have to be for him to be able to buy it). I've spent 4 1/2 years in this section telling stories of wrestling's past, "teaching" wrestling history, and trying to undo some of the damage Vince has done to wrestling's legacy, history, and, uh, "credibility".

Many times, I've told about Vince's "death march" on North America, where he systematically dismantled the territories, drained the NWA of it's power, one by one drove dozens of promotions out of business, and put thousands of people out of work, to create his WWE monopoly in which HE controls "pro wrestling" on TV (and by extension, house shows). He didn't necessarily put out a better product, or let the fans choose; he cold-bloodedly took out every company any way he could, fail or foul, legal or otherwise, to force us to watch the WWF/E or nothing. He succeeded.

It took him 17 years but Vince did kill pro wrestling (he did NOT kill WCW, though; WCW killed itself, but that's a subject for another discussion and one I've written about many times here). Vince now controlled "pro wrestling" in North America, and he "owned" the all-important TV market. He gloated like a puffed-up peacock over it, too, not realizing then what that really meant to HIS company (he doesn't care about anything else).

Vince killed the territories and dozens of promotions...the places he got HIS performers from. The "bingo parlor" and regional promotions doing that silly "rasslin" stuff he laughed and sneered at on his shows. Which meant his "farm system" dried up and died, and he no longer had an extensive network of promotions training new wrestlers, polishing them and giving them experience working in front of crowds.

Vince no longer had ready-made stars he could "call up" to fill holes in his roster; he was forced to open his own "developmental territory" (OVW, now FCW) to do the training and polishing, while he had to put inexperienced and poorly-trained rookies on national TV to "stink up the joint" (to quote Mick Foley). Vince finally did learn that lesson a few years ago. And he does admit that killing the territories was not a good thing to do.

The WWF would have rose to the top anyway; it probably would have had to share the pie with WCW and perhaps ECW, but the WWF would have been very successful anyway had he left the other promotions alone. And more importantly to the WWE (the only thing Vince cares about) that "farm system" would have been intact all along to train and polish new wrestlers for Vince to choose from. Vince could have driven TNA out of business long ago.

He knows all of the dirty tricks (and invented a few of his own) to do just that. But he didn't. If everybody would step back and take a good look, they will see that Vince DOESN'T "do" anything to TNA.

He leaves them alone to succeed or fail on their own, without any..."help" from him. He needs TNA to be where they are, to provide competition and motivation for HIS employees and performers to do their best, to try to out-do TNA and keep the WWE ratings where they are. Vince doesn't bother the indys, either.

He needs them. The indys are his "farm system" training and polishing new wrestlers. When he needs to, he picks and chooses what he thinks are the most malleable of them, to turn them into WWE "superstars".

Vince doesn't want to own TNA; he needs it to be right where it is. Vince doesn't want the indys, either; they are his "farm system". Unless you've seen Vince go after a promotion to kill it, you don't really know what that means.

I saw him do that dozens of times in the 80's and 90's. He's NOT doing that now. To answer your final question: damn right.

Vince doesn't "acquire" other companies to make them look good. He "acquires" them solely for their tape libraries he can profit from. Period.

Competition is great for the fans. We get to choose which show(s) to watch. When Vince bought out WCW, he made the competition become about "brands" and he owned both.

We either watched WWF/E or didn't watch US wrestling much at all until TNA was created. It seems Vince McMahon hates the thought that he could, once again, become #2 at anything. When WCW Nitro beat RAW in the ratings wars for 80+ weeks, I can imagine Vince was seething.

Nobody likes being second best. He had the opportunity later to embarrass WCW and he took advantage of it when he purchased what was left of it. Being bought out by Vince McMahon gave him the right to turn WCW and ECW into what he thought it should be - or what he thought of them.

In my view, he seems to think less of those things he didn't create. Being bought out by Vince McMahon is typically "the end" of things as they were. As it was with WCW and ECW, nothing remained the same.

McMahon beat a dead horse, got his money out of it, and buried it.

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