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Death, sex abuse, hush money — the dark side of Vince McMahon’s WWE

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Vince McMahon, the WWF’s already scandal-plagued CEO who declined to offer comment on the allegations in this piece, allegedly couldn’t stomach the idea of putting a stop to the lucrative proceedings.“Vince decreed that they should keep going,” Abraham Josephine Riesman, author of the new book “Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America,” told The Post. “So the rest of the wrestlers had to perform knowing their friend was gravely injured, probably dead, and then [later] knowing he was dead,” said Riesman, who interviewed over 150 people — many of them quite close to McMahon — while researching tell-all tome.Riesman examines McMahon’s rise from an allegedly abusive childhood in impoverished Southern Pines, NC to a tycoon overseeing a $6B industry — and some very dark moments along the way.

In the book, Riesman claims than on that fateful night in Kansas City, McMahon had settled for a technician who hadn’t worked with WWF before and who had “significantly less experience with the stunt than the technician who’d overseen similar entrances in the past.And, Riesman writes that, just moments after the fatal accident, McMahon had the crowd back in the palm of his hand — chanting “Vince!

Vince! Vince!” as he entered the ring, desperate for the show to go on.“Before the broadcast cut out, you could see Vince standing there, in his capacity as a character, heaving his breath, trying to act.

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