Vincent McMahon

Vince McMahon is married to Linda, who is the former WWE CEO, and current American SBA Administrator. He first met her when she was 13 and he was 16, and got married a few years later on August 26, 1966. They have a son, Shane, and a daughter Stephanie. He is the father-in-law of WWE executive/wrestler Paul Triple H Leveque.

Both his children, Shane and Stephanie, are involved with WWF/E, both onscreen and behind the scenes. While Shane left the company on January 1, 2010, and returned in 2016, Stephanie is active in an onscreen and backstage role.

McMahon owns a $12 million penthouse in Manhattan; a $40 million mansion in Greenwich; a $20 million vacation home; and a 47-foot sports yacht. In 2001, he was listed as a billionaire.

Vincent McMahon was born on August 24, 1945, in Pinehurst, North Carolina, to Victoria and Vincent James McMahon. He had a difficult childhood.

His father was the founder of Capitol Wrestling Corporation which would dominate professional wrestling in the Northeastern US in the 1980s. Vincent’s paternal grandfather, Roderick James Jess McMahon, worked as a boxing and wrestling promoter.

Vince’s father left the family, taking along his elder son Rod, when Vincent junior was a baby. He was raised by his mother and a string of stepfathers. One of his stepfathers, Leo Lupton, used to beat his mother and him. Despite his father was being wealthy, Vincent grew up in severe poverty and under the worst circumstances.

He attended Fishburne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia, and graduated from East Carolina University in 1968 with a degree in business administration. In his childhood, he suffered from dyslexia.

Vince McMahon was introduced into the family business in 1971, when his father made him the head of Capitol's operations in Bangor, Maine. Next, he was made responsible for their New England-based operations. He was a major force behind the renaming of the company to the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), now called WWE.

He made his debut as a commentator in 1971, and eventually became the regular play-by-play commentator and continued in the role till November 1997. Besides matches, he also hosted other WWF shows and introduced WWF programming to TBS.

In 1979, he and his wife bought the Cape Cod Coliseum and the Cape Cod Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast Hockey League. They also sold rock concerts by Van Halen and Rush.

In 1980, he and his wife Linda founded the company, Titan Sports, which was later incorporated in the Capitol Wrestling Co., which he bought from his ailing father, who died in 1984.

With the vision to make WWF a national entity, he split WWF from the National Wrestling Alliance a second time in 1983 (the first time it was split in 1963). He began expanding the company nationally by promoting in areas outside of Northeast US by signing talents from other companies like American Wrestling Association (AWA). He signed Hulk Hogan and used him as the ambassador to promote his brand.

Vince McMahon has been honored with a number of awards during his career. The Guinness World Records named him the Oldest WWE Champion in 1999. He was inducted in the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum in 2011.

Besides winning the ECW World Championship, WWF Championship, and Royal Rumble, he has earned several Pro Wrestling Illustrated championships and Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards.