McMemphis: Chapter 15 - Vince Wears the USWA Title

From USWA TV on September 18, 1993.

Of this whole run, this is my favorite Vince McMahon interview. The show opens with the news that Tatanka has defeated Jerry Lawler for the USWA Unified Championship. Vince sends in an interview gloating about the victory wearing the USWA belt.

Now I've talked about how shocking a lot of this was at the time. Bret as a heel, Owen as a heel, Vince as a heel, etc. But this was off the scale.

The WWF didn't make it a habit of acknowledging that other promotions existed. It was assumed to just be Vince's rule for TV. Now you have McMahon himself showing up on Memphis TV with their championship. Oh and it's worth saying that this WWF invasion was booked about a billion times better than any invasion angle the WWF has done.

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• uswa
• memphis
• wrestling
• vince
• mcmahon
• jerry
• king
• lawler
• tatanka

[manzi71]

Fuck,this Mr McMahon was better than the WWF Attitude Mr McMahon!

[cattants]

The Mcmahon charactor way before its time...

[SaiyajinCMC82]

Wow...Vince's original heel run before an actual heel run in 97/98

[Buckeyecat2002]

Greasy, scary and intimidating.

[sithlord115]

srry torn the smokey mountain wrestling organization tried to invade before wwf becasue randthales was the promoter then and jerry jarret and herry lawler couldnt compete with raw and nitro in 96-97 so they sold it in late 96 ot early 97

[tornmask]

WOW!..the first hostile takeover in Wrestling history! =oO

[gregnice25]

how did this promotion combine with wwf? especially with vince on the show showing a different promotion belt...

[dwlightfoot]

Why couldn't the Mr. McMahon character be more like this...evil almost dangerous!

[jerzeefranky3475]

If they EVER decide 2 EVER re-unify the WWE & WORLD titles...Thesy SHOULD use either a re-issue of that there strap...&/or...The 1 USWA had b4 they decided 2 use this 1...It would OWN ALL...

[biffvonwrinkle]

mr mchmahon in the baby blue old skool suit is just too weird

[RSXemperor]

@SayHI2TheBadGuyMang He also had great bookers over the last 30 years like Ernie Ladd, JJ Dillion, George Scott and Paul Heyman. It also looks like Triple H is going to be running things.

[gjfwang]

nice laugh,he should have kept it.