An interesting update has shed light on Vince McMahon’s current role in both WWE and TKO Group Holdings.
With it recently revealed that McMahon was removed from WWE’s creative picture by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, many have wondered what the McMahon’s current powers and role in the company going forward would entail.
According to Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Emanuel’s vision for McMahon was planned to utilise his ‘worldwide notoriety’ away from WWE’s TV product.
However, now we may have a clearer picture what exactly McMahon has been getting up to and the clue lies in UFC CEO Dana White’s recent comments regarding his relationship with McMahon in an interview with Sports Illustrated.
White said:
“My history with Vince isn’t a good one. He tried to f**k me so many times for no reason whatsoever except just to f**k me.
“But that’s in the past. Now that Vince and I are allies, no one’s been a better partner than Vince.”
White’s comments point towards McMahon helping out with the UFC’s business, not exclusively WWE, and Dave Meltzer has expanded on that in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Meltzer explains:
White’s quotes indicated that McMahon is now involved with helping the UFC business and is not strictly working on WWE business in his Chairman of the Board of Directors position with TKO, where he’s actually above White on the corporate depth chart.
UFC has been left to run itself from the sport standpoint since the Endeavor purchase but McMahon, like Ari Emanuel, who heads the big company, is involved in big picture deal making.
You can read more on White’s comments regarding his new partnership with McMahon here.
As for WWE’s creative – which is now fully led by Paul Levesque (Triple H) – the company is just over a week from their next big Premium Live Event, that being Crown Jewel on November 4 from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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