Against his father's wishes, McMahon began an expansion process that fundamentally changed the industry.

Other promoters were furious when McMahon began syndicating WWF television shows to television stations across the United States, in areas outside of the WWF's traditional northeastern stronghold.

McMahon also began selling videotapes of WWF events outside the Northeast through his Coliseum Video distribution company.

McMahon managed to keep Bret Hart from reverting to WCW, and began a feud with Hart and Steve Austin.

This, in turn, led to the Austin vs. McMahon feud, which, along with D-Generation X who briefly hired Mike Tyson in the build up to WrestleMania XIV, officially began the Attitude Era.

He continued as the Cougars ' punter as the 1978 season began, but when Marc Wilson was injured in the third game of the season ( against Colorado State ), McMahon became the starting quarterback.

McMahon began his career as a bingo caller in Maine when he was fifteen.

McMahon then began an on-screen relationship with wrestler Test, which led to a rivalry between him and her older brother Shane.

McMahon returned in January 2002 when Triple H made a comeback as a fan-favorite, but the good couple began having problems, as McMahon began acting like a nagging and clingy wife.

Meanwhile, Vince McMahon began to resent Stephanie's attempts to stop him from pursuing an affair with Sable.

McMahon began her WWE career as an Account Executive for the WWE sales office in New York.

McMahon began to find his studies at the University to be boring, so he began a successful modeling career.

In addition to a career as a fashion model, including a jeans commercial for Levi Strauss, McMahon began an acting career on Australian soap Home and Away, playing the soldier Ben Lucini ( 1989 – 1991 ).

Despite their feud in the USWA in 1993, by 1998, Vince McMahon had turned heel in the WWF for the first time and left the announce position, to which Lawler began praising McMahon's name on commentary as part of his own heel persona, much to the chagrin of Jim Ross.

On a number of occasions, Mølby began matches as a third central defender or deep-lying sweeper, before moving into midfield alongside Steve McMahon, often with devastating effect, as the match wore on.

McMahon began to defer payments to Hart, claiming that the WWF was in " financial peril.

Later in the night, a storyline between Hart and McMahon began with the two appearing to have their own reconciliation only to have McMahon subsequently kick Hart in the gut: in real life, Hart and McMahon have been on speaking terms since 2002, when McMahon called Hart during his recovery from a stroke.

However, after appearing on the network television competition show — and clearly charming host Ed McMahon in addition to the more important fact of being a one-week champion on — Star Search, Rimes decided to pursue a career in country music.

This led to a segment a week later where Austin had pledged a few days prior in a meeting to " play ball " with McMahon, appearing in a suit and tie, with a beaming McMahon taking a picture of himself and his new corporate champion.

As part of the cross-promotion, McMahon, Bret and Owen Hart, Giant González, Tatanka, and " Macho Man " Randy Savage would begin appearing on USWA television to further the feud.

In 2007, after the death of the Benoit family, Vince McMahon was forced to abandon the storyline of his " death ," appearing out of character to speak about the incident and its repercussions.

On December 14, 1998, they would turn their attention to The Corporation with Triple H again appearing as " The Crock ", Road Dogg playing Mr McMahon ( with two midgets representing Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson kissing his behind throughout ); Billy Gunn, playing Shane McMahon wearing an adult diaper ; X-Pac playing Ken Shamrock ; Chyna as The Big Boss Man ; and Sensation returning to play Michaels.

Halewood-born McMahon started his career at Everton, the club he supported as a boy, playing for them as a teenager after appearing at Goodison Park as a ball boy.

Seeing that the American Wrestling Association ( AWA ) promotion with which he had the most success over the years was crumbling, particularly when Hulk Hogan and many of the other top talent jumped ship to Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ), Crusher went to work for McMahon on a part-time basis, appearing at WWF house shows all over the Midwest.

If Austin lost, he would be banned from wrestling for the WWF Championship again ; if he won, Vince McMahon would be banned from appearing on WWF TV.

< sup > 2 </ sup > Linda McMahon gained control after her husband Vince McMahon was barred from appearing on WWF television after Fully Loaded.

According to Reid, McEwen was aware that McMahon was habitually breaching Cabinet confidentiality and regularly leaking information to favoured journalists and lobbyists, including Maxwell Newton, who had been hired as a " consultant " by Japanese trade interests.

( In fact, it is not clear whether the company McMahon fronted, American Family Publishers, regularly performed such unannounced visits, as opposed to Publishers Clearing House and its oft-promoted " prize patrol ".

Although both Gagne and McMahon promoted their own world champions, their promotions continued to have representatives on the NWA Board of Directors and regularly exchanged talent with NWA promotions.

As part of storylines, Ross has been regularly targeted by Vince McMahon in rather harsh circumstances throughout his time with WWE: most notably in 2005 when Vince McMahon's character, Mr. McMahon, featured in a series of segments which made fun of Ross ' legitimate colon surgery.

Some other regularly featured highlights include a " Breakdown " ( in which ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury would comedically break down an athlete's performance in a previously hosted segment ), " Do Not Lend Tapes to This Person " ( which is usually a pre / post-commercial close-up shot of a poster featuring a notorious celebrity such as Vince McMahon or George W. Bush, athlete or fictional character such as Bigfoot or Freddy Krueger ; a picture of the Sklars on the board was the series ' final shot ), " What to Look For " ( in which the Sklar brothers point out certain happenings that they find ironic or personally amusing ), " Cheap Shot of the Week " ( which usually showcases an athlete featured earlier in the show at their worst ), and " What Got Cut " ( which shows the viewer at home what didn't make the cut due to time constraints, also an acknowledgment that the show once ran in hour-long episodes, rather than the latter half-hour ).

McMahon continues to enjoy huge popularity in Asia, and his show regularly attracts a massive audience-sometimes up to 1 billion viewers.

Richter, however, claims she was still under her original five year contract, but that she regularly had disagreements with McMahon about her compensation.

With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

The area had a Protestant and Unionist majority and IRA actions were responded to with reprisals against the Catholic population, including killings ( such as the McMahon Murders ) and the burning of many homes – as on Belfast's Bloody Sunday.

Also, in Tampa, on October 16, 2006, four members of the Gambino crime family ( Capo Ronald Trucchio, Terry Scaglione, Steven Catallono and associate Kevin McMahon ) were tried under RICO statutes, found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

This caused wide controversy among the women of New Orleans and McMahon publicly apologized on sports radio, denouncing the claim as false, indicating that he couldn ’ t have said such things simply because he ’ s a late-sleeper, and wouldn ’ t have been up that early in the morning to publicly smear the women of New Orleans.

Unable to reach political accommodation on disputed territory along the 3, 225-kilometer-long Himalayan border, the Chinese launched simultaneous offensives in Ladakh and across the McMahon Line on 20 October 1962, coinciding with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It was not until the late 1930s that the British started to use the McMahon Line on official maps of the region.

President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon / Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective from January 1, 1947.

However, on 18 December, the Country Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen announced that the Country Party would not continue to serve in the coalition if McMahon were to be the new Liberal leader.

After the election, Gorton was challenged for the Liberal leadership by McMahon and David Fairbairn, but so long as McEwen's veto on McMahon remained in place, he was fairly safe.

McMahon died of cancer in Sydney on 31 March 1988 at 80.

His widow Lady ( Sonia ) McMahon died aged 77 on 2 April 2010.

But more importantly, McEwen was bitterly opposed to McMahon on political grounds, because McMahon was allied with free trade advocates in the conservative parties and favoured sweeping tariff reforms: a position that was vehemently opposed by McEwen, his Country Party colleagues and their rural constituents.

The security forces were also reportedly implicated in reprisal killings of Catholics, notably the McMahon Murders on 26 March 1922, in which six Catholics were killed and the Arnon Street Massacre on 1 April, where another six were shot dead in retaliation for the IRA killing of a policeman.

Mondt and McMahon wanted Rogers to keep the NWA World Championship, but Rogers was unwilling to sacrifice his $ 25, 000 deposit on the belt ( title holders at the time had to pay a deposit to insure they honored their commitments as champion ).

Rogers lost the NWA World Championship to Lou Thesz in a one-fall match in Toronto, Ontario on January 24, 1963, which led to Mondt, McMahon, and the CWC leaving the NWA in protest, creating the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ) in the process.

On February 21, 1980, the son of Vincent J. McMahon, Vincent K. McMahon, founded Titan Sports, Inc. and on June 6, 1982, purchased Capitol Wrestling Corporation Ltd. from his father and other stock holders ( Arnold Skaaland, Gorilla Monsoon, and Phil Zacko ).

WrestleMania was a pay-per-view extravaganza ( in some areas ; most areas of the country saw WrestleMania available on closed-circuit television ) that McMahon marketed as being the Super Bowl of professional wrestling.

The WWF did incredible business on the shoulders of McMahon and his all-American babyface hero, Hulk Hogan, for the next several years, creating what some observers dubbed a second golden age for professional wrestling.

NBC walked out on the venture after only one season, but McMahon intended to continue alone.