Vince McMahon must be livid.  For more than 40 years he exerted almost total creative control over the world of professional wrestling as the figurehead of World Wrestling Entertainment. Few scripts went to air without the Vince McMahon imprint upon them. McMahon would famously blow up writers’ room sessions just hours from curtains up, blasting the creative team for ideas that failed to fit his vision. Mr McMahon wrote himself into and out of scripts as he saw fit – based on what would rile up the WWE audience most effectively, and line his pockets in the process. But with…

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