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Vince McMahon received his star on the famed Hollywood Walk of Fame. From the official guide from the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

For his outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry and in celebration of Wrestlemania 24, Vince McMahon will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. … McMahon became a pioneer in the cable television industry by leveraging the new technologies of pay-per-view and closed-circuit television for the first WrestleMania in 1985. He had not only built a brand that the audience would watch on television, but he had created such a demand for the WWE that the audience would pay to watch its PPV spectaculars. WrestleMania III in 1987 attracted 93,173 fans to the Pontiac Silverdome, setting an indoor attendance record that still stands. For the past three years, WWE’s pre-eminent pay-per-view, WrestleMania, has achieved more than one million buys worldwide and on April 1, 2007; WrestleMania 23 achieved nearly 1.2 million buys, making it the highest grossing one-day live event in WWE history.