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As to the topic, when I was a kid watching wrestling in the early 90s, I always guessed that Monsoon was actually an important guy within the company, and that Vince was some clown, like a newscaster who had been a huge wrestling fan and had gotten the WWF to hire him, and were paying him in merchandise. You would have NEVER convinced me that that little dork in the red bow tie OWNED the company. Even when my brother told me that he was the owner, I was only willing to concede that he had probably become a part-owner over the years. I only really accepted it in after the Mr. McMahon character took off.
Monsoon to me was the real voice of the company during the 80s/90s. As far as non-heel guys on the mic went, Vince seemed like a company shill, but Monsoon seemed to be the guy "in the know." As someone who had never been a huge fan of Hogan, for me Monsoon was the only guy who could sell him to me as "immortal." In fact, to this day Gorilla was the only face commentator who ever had a "what he says is the goods" aura for me.
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