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 began appearing regularly on WWE in 1999 as a part of a storyline with The Undertaker.

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.

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.

In June 2008, it was announced that McMahon was $ 644, 000 behind on payments on $ 4. 8 million in mortgage loans and was fighting to avoid foreclosure on his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills home.

To compensate, McMahon cut the pay of both wrestlers and front office personnel – close to 40 % in the latter case ( and about 50 % for top level managers such as Bobby Heenan and Jimmy Hart, who both left ).

McMahon revolved the company around Hart, Austin and Shawn Michaels, feuding with each other for the majority of the year, leaving many to admire their impact carrying the business through a difficult time.

Following Bret Hart's return to WWE in over twelve years since the Montreal Screwjob incident, Bret Hart defeated Vince McMahon in a No-Holds Barred match with members of the Hart wrestling family present.

He later served as a guest commentator alongside Vince McMahon and Bobby Heenan at Survivor Series 1993 in a match between the Hart Family and Shawn Michaels and his Knights.

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.

The " Screwjob "— Earl Hebner, under orders from Vince McMahon, calls for the bell as Shawn Michaels holds Bret Hart in the Sharpshooter ( professional wrestling ) | Sharpshooter finishing move, although Bret Hart did not submit.

The Montreal Screwjob was a controversial, purportedly real life professional wrestling event in which the owner of the World Wrestling Federation, Vince McMahon, double-crossed the defending WWF Champion, Bret Hart, during the main event match of the professional wrestling pay-per-view event Survivor Series held on November 9, 1997 at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

It was decided by McMahon that Shawn Michaels would win the contest, and the WWF title, from Bret Hart no matter what.

The plan was executed when the match referee, Earl Hebner, under orders from McMahon, called for the bell to ring and ended the match as Michaels held Hart in the Sharpshooter submission hold ( which was Hart's signature finishing move ), even though Hart had not submitted.

It has been suggested by some that the entire incident may have been a work created by McMahon and Hart.

Nonetheless, Hart was ostracized from the WWF while McMahon and Michaels continued to receive angry responses from audiences for many years.

The relationship between Hart and McMahon later healed, however, culminating in Hart's induction on April 1, 2006 into the company's Hall of Fame, where he thanked McMahon for the opportunity to perform for the WWF.

In October 1996, Hart declined a 3-year, $ 8. 4 million offer from WCW, opting to sign an unprecedented 20-year deal that he had been offered by McMahon, which promised to make him the highest-paid wrestler in the company and secure him a major role with the company management following his retirement.

Hart allegedly said he would have no problem losing to Michaels if McMahon requested.

This led to Hart's outright refusal to lose the WWF Championship to Michaels at the pay-per-view event in Montreal, although in Hart's documentary, Hart states to McMahon that he would happily drop the belt but not in Canada.

McMahon believed he made the right choice in fighting for Hart to return, which kept him from joining rival WCW in 1996.

His plans included many stars, but not Hart ; as such McMahon encouraged Hart to reopen negotiations with WCW.

A visibly pregnant McMahon also returned on the March 6, 2006 episode of Raw, approaching Shawn Michaels backstage and claiming to have abdominal pains.

Their rehiring was announced several weeks before their debut, with Vince McMahon claiming to have hired the nWo in order to destroy the WWF – of which Ric Flair was now a co-owner, which McMahon could not tolerate.

Bret Hart stopped Patrick from giving Hogan the title, claiming the fast-count, and restarted the match claiming that he didn't want to see Sting get screwed like he was by Vince McMahon.

Warrior disputes McMahon's explanation, claiming that the real reason why he no showed those events was a breach of contract by McMahon, in which WWF sold Warrior's merchandise without giving him a percentage.

On the September 23, 1996 episode of Monday Night Raw, Ross delivered a worked-shoot promo during which he ran down WWF Chairman Vince McMahon ( outing him as chairman and not just a commentator for the first time in WWF storylines ) and debuted his " new " Diesel and Razor, claiming that while working in the WWF " front office " he had been the man responsible for so many people leaving the company as part of his " revenge " against the WWF for how they treated him in the past.

While most of the AWA talent left for the WWF in this time without giving proper notice ( the AWA required departing talent to work a six-week notice for booking and syndication-based reasons, with most talent claiming that McMahon paid them extra not to work out their notices with the AWA ), only Heenan worked out his notice in good faith to the Gagne family.

Bad News eventually left the WWF after SummerSlam 1990, claiming Vince McMahon failed to live up to his promise to make him the company's first black champion.

Vince McMahon turned face during this time, claiming that Mark Calaway ( Undertaker ) was taking his gimmick too far, and that Calaway actually believed that he in fact was the Undertaker and that he was the second coming of the Lord of Darkness.

He went as far as to blame McMahon for the Chris Benoit double murder and suicide and claiming that Daniel Benoit was actually McMahon's son, causing Benoit to commit the crimes after making the discovery.