Vince McMahons full self may never be truly known as new Netflix doc doesnt get far enough

We may never know the true Vince McMahon.While comprehensive, the new Netflix docu-series “Mr.McMahon” didn’t break major new ground with the notorious former WWE chairman.

Though we did get a few insightful peeks here and there while going through WWE’s highs, lows, trials and scandals. It may be wrestling fans’ last real chance to do so with the 79-year-old McMahon now entangled in a sordid sexual assault and sex trafficking lawsuit brought by former WWE employee Janel Grant that caused him to resign as executive chairman of TKO in January and to cancel his final interviews for the series. The lawsuit is on pause until the federal government conducts its investigation.It’s hard to see the very guarded former WWE boss granting this kind of lengthy access a second time or opening up in a way he seemed unwilling to do for Netflix even if McMahon, who is denying the claims, is exonerated or the lawsuit is settled.It felt like the show and McMahon tells you from the start that what we hear — at least from him — was likely as much truth as he was willing to reveal. “I wish I could tell you the real stories,” McMahon says in the opening episodes.

“Holy s–t.” When pushed to give the interviewer one, McMahon says we will be getting the “semi-interesting” version.“I don’t want anybody to really know me,” McMahon adds with a sly grin.Is it because McMahon wants to protect himself and the business or the idea raised by himself and others in the doc that he doesn’t quite know who he really is?“I have…not two different brains, but like computers in my head and sometimes they work against me,” McMahon says.“I have one computer talking to you right now, and there’s another one going on with me thinking something completely different.

Then, there’s a third one sometimes. “If I wanted to tap into it, I could.So, it’s difficult for me sometimes to pay attention to things.

It’s bothered me through the years because all ...