"Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America" looks at the years of scandal in and around professional wrestling under the younger McMahon's ...
I have also pledged to accept the findings and outcome of the investigation, whatever they are,” McMahon said at the time. “His legacy is secure in the industry he remade. And [Snuka] doesn’t know what was in the case, but it must have helped because he got off the charges right after,” Riesman said. Phillips and Garvin, in addition to their superior and McMahon’s “right hand man” Pat Patterson, resigned that spring. “The wrestling news outlets still write deferentially, sometimes even lovingly, about Vince,” writes Riesman. McMahon has previously denied any involvement in the investigation of Snuka. McMahon is an armor that virtue cannot destroy.” “The coroner recommended that it be investigated as a homicide. He was making a face of theatrical determination,” writes Riesman. Nothing came of it,” Riesman said. Just moments after the fatal accident, McMahon had the crowd back in the palm of his hand, Riesman writes — chants of “Vince! Vince!