Love him or hate him? I guess I have to reluctantly tip my hat to the fact that he was a good businessman, however from the stories I hear not a great manager of people, and I don’t think I can ever forgive him for the Big Daddy circus. Not sure how well he did out of wrestling but I know none of his wrestlers earned much. What ya think?
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Wrestling all over Europe was on the demise in 1980s. Max kept it going in uk... but in the end its popularity fell away.
Quinn left ... then st Clair... the daddy success papered over the cracks. Banger went to the sun ....Kirk died
.. then itv decided they didnt want the content as it was keeping them down market.
Daddy attracted new fans... but they didnt keep coming... while real fans got fed up with the daddy pantomime. In the end when daddy couldn't go on... there was a summer with dave boy smith and then that was about it for max.
So, could max have done the daddy thing along side more authentic bill's? Could he have avoided the itv cancellation?
IMO it's yes and no.
A more forward looking guy could have seen the signs and taken action earlier.