Vince won’t be going into the MMA business because it’s hot. He’ll be going in to “keep his spot” if you will forgive the term. He could give a flying fuck about MMA. He hates that shit.

But its all assumptive. There’s been no news about Vince McMahon starting an MMA organization, running an MMA organization, promoting an MMA show, et al. It assumes that because Vince McMahon believes that MMA is a serious challenger (which it may or may not be depending on your POV) that he needs to counter by fighting back with his own MMA organization, in spite of the fact that he doesn’t have one, has never had one, has not run MMA bouts (don’t even think of Brawl For All), has no fighters under contract, etc etc etc.

In the end I don’t think he buys anyone or even seriously considers starting one up, and then given the choice between Vince McMahon’s MMA startup and a firmly established company or even a fairly new one with longstanding connections (like M-1), that will be the route NBC goes rather than tempt fate with a Vince McMahon organization which would be the butt of jokes from the time it was announced to when it folded 9 months later.

Vince’s company is the highest one in Universal in terms of ratings. Now NBC annouces it’s looking for MMA programing. In Vince’s eyes, this is a slap in the face. Especially when the report comes out the same day he has a big named wrestling come back to the company.

So what’s Vince gonna do? He’s going to try to create his own shindig as fast as he can before anyone from office talks to M-1 or IFL and present it to them with Shane forming the head. Possibly buy out Valor and try to hype the trash there as “the best”.

Vince won’t be going into the MMA business because it’s hot. He’ll be going in to “keep his spot” if you will forgive the term. He could give a flying fuck about MMA. He hates that shit.

Why even bring up the WWE? Are you that big of a mark?

Vince’s guy would be Rick Bassman answering to Shane McMahon.

Lappen (who is now with Elite XC I believe) could have done quite a bit more with the organization if he had WWE’s bankroll and media reach. Ah, what might have been…

This is absolutely true. And you know the microscope would be out for a Vince run group.

Maybe we’re just off on what we’re both talking at here, but I don’t think we’re in any danger of seeing anything close to those type of ridiculous pro wrestling storylines, now or ever.

I don’t think we are either because I doubt seriously that any pro wrestling promoter is about to dive into a crowded MMA pool. Kimo did consider doing that wrestling/MMA thing though….

Maybe we’re just off on what we’re both talking at here, but I don’t think we’re in any danger of seeing anything close to those type of ridiculous pro wrestling storylines, now or ever.

Seeing the types of punishment that have gone down for fights even looking like someone was “handholding” a guy along in a competitive fight (Shannon Ritch), I highly doubt you’d get away with anything remotely close to any pro-wrestling gimmickry.

And if it did actually happen at one event, I would suspect that no commission in the country would approve any license following that.

There’s plenty of gimmick storylines. Dude, Mr. McMahon’s illegitimate son? I mean, c’mon. That guys like Tito and Baroni talk trash isn’t necessarily them working as “heels” anymore than TO does. I mean, get this, in real life, some people really are conceited. Merely being conceited and being conceited and faking your death and firing people and putting them in dumpsters and having your daughter be crucified by a zombie character is not the same thing.