Personal Life
McMahon had two sons Roderick McMahon II and a younger son, Vincent K. McMahon with his first wife Vicki Askew (Born 1920) in 1945. McMahon married his second wife, Juanita W. Johnston (1914–1998), and the couple lived in Fort Lauderdale in the mid-1950s.
According to many wrestlers & former employees, McMahon had the lifelong habit of carrying rolls of quarters and stacking them in his hand as a way of concentrating.
Unlike his son, McMahon, Sr. believed that the job of a promoter should be kept backstage or behind the scenes and should never interfere with the action in the ring. As a result McMahon almost never came down to the squared circle. He can however clearly be seen standing ringside during the infamous Madison Square Garden 'Alley Fight' between Sgt. Slaughter and Pat Patterson.
McMahon would never live to see WWE grow from a territorial promotion to what is now a worldwide organization. On May 24, 1984, McMahon died from pancreatic cancer. He was 69 years old. His death came just four months after Hulk Hogan defeated The Iron Sheik for the World Wrestling Federation Championship in Madison Square Garden on January 23, 1984, the match which launched Hulk-A-Mania and the 80's wrestling boom. He is buried in Bonnell Cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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