Mr. McMahon

Stats

Height: 6’2”
Weight: 248 pounds
Weight Class : Heavyweight
From : Greenwich, CT
Career Highlights : Chairman and CEO of WWE; WWE Champion; Royal Rumble winner (1999)

Attributes

Strike Power: 75
Grapple Power: 70
Submission: 70
Strike Defense: 75
Grapple Defense: 70
Speed : 65
Agility: 60
Adrenaline: 65
Recovery: 65
Durability: 65
Charisma : 95
Tag Team : 75
Overall: 79

Abilities

Dirty Pin
Move Thief
Ring Escape

Signature Moves

Lou Thesz Press 2

Situation: Running or Irish Whip rebound

Finishers

Mr. McMahon Stunner

Situation: Standing front

Bio

“I love to fight,” admits Mr. McMahon. “I always have.”

It took a degree in Business Administration/Marketing at East Carolina University, followed by several unproductive years selling adding machines and ice-cream accessories, before Mr. McMahon convinced his father to bring him into the family business.

Strangely enough, he’d spent less than a year learning the ropes as a promoter when the senior McMahon “promoted” him as a TV announcer, only moments before a show in Hamburg, PA.

For more than 20 years, Mr. McMahon would remain behind the mic, even after buying World Wrestling Entertainment from his father in 1982 and taking it to unprecedented levels. To this day, many out-of-work regional promoters maintain that he continued doing TV commentary only to smokescreen what he was accomplishing outside of the ring.

The truth is, the Chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment couldn’t make a global multimedia juggernaut without breaking a few companies.

So he broke all of them, and took great satisfaction in devouring any wrestling promotion that refused to “join” WWE. As Sgt. Slaughter puts it, “He screwed everybody. That was the part of him that wanted to be the best there is.”

Mr. McMahon admits to feeling a tad remorseful after acquiring his last, and greatest, threat—World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the seemingly “unbeatable” organization bankrolled by billionaire Ted Turner—simply because he missed the struggle. So, in 2002, he decided to split Raw and SmackDown into separate brands, effectively creating his own competition.

Despite his vast wealth and social status, Mr. McMahon still loves nothing more than knuckling up. And he’ll do it any time, anywhere—inside the ring (where his longtime rivalry with Stone Cold Steve Austin still raises hell within the WWE fan base) or from the boardroom.

He tells those who don’t like it that they can kiss his, well, “backside.” In fact, he even founded an elite club for doing precisely that.

Raw announcer Jim Ross is convinced that his boss’s constant need to fight is what fuels his success. “His competitive nature is what he carries with him every waking moment,” he says.

Mr. McMahon agrees, adding that no one better understands than he what it means to be a competitor. “You’ve got to grab your competition by the throat,” he insists, “and squeeze the life out of them.”

Breakdown

There is a reason that Mr. McMahon wears a suit. He’s a super-charismatic Superstar with a 95 (one of just 14 Superstars to have a 95 or above in Charisma), but he’s down in the 60s and 70s in all other attributes.

We enjoyed playing as Mr. McMahon in a Royal Rumble format—he won it in real-life in 1999—because he’s not a dominating force and presents a challenge, but he does have the ability to store three Finishers that can each be used as automatic mini-game defenses when your opponents try to force you over the ropes.

Since you’re the CEO, nobody’s going to say anything when you Ring Escape and use Move Thief to steal your opponent’s Finisher, so use these when your opponent is on a roll.