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#3. Hope is true: The reason why Vince McMahon doesn't appear on WWE TV anymore

Vince McMahon

Vince McMahon is perhaps the greatest heel in WWE history. His presence in the Attitude Era as an on-screen authority figure significantly helped boost the ratings and he is an iconic figure, no matter how controversial.

However, in the last eight-plus years, Vince McMahon has drastically cut down the amount of screen-time he has. He has only returned for special occasions and a few storylines for brief-but-impactful appearances.

This seems to be on purpose, and Bruce Prichard revealed why Vince McMahon doesn't appear on WWE TV as much anymore:

"Most of the time he had to be talked into them. He would always start with somebody else, and, ‘No God damnit. I’m too old to be on TV. I don’t wanna be on TV. Put somebody else on there that — I’m not gonna make the live events. Get somebody on there that’s gonna do that.’ And then, 'Okay, well what if we did this?' So he usually took a little bit of talking." (H/T POST Wrestling)

We hope this is true because it's the right decision for Vince McMahon to make. There was a time that came when he was no longer needed on WWE TV, and he stopped becoming a regular on-screen figure after that.