Vince McMahon Archives

Only days after a report from The Wall Street Journal reported that the board of professional wrestling & media company World World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) was investigating a $3M money settlement that CEO Vince McMahon paid a female paralegal over an alleged affair as well as several nondisclosure pacts connected to misconduct claims from other[...]

Davies' thunder, our concerns for the fate of Rhea Seehorn's Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul growing by the day, The Boys offering us a look at Paul Reiser's The Legend, the WWE board investigating a $3m hush payment with Vince McMahon's name on it, Paramount+ dropping a look at Sylvester Stallone in Taylor Sheridan's[...]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the board of professional wrestling & media company World World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) board is in the midst of investigating a $3M money settlement that CEO Vince McMahon paid a female paralegal over an alleged affair Citing documents and sources familiar with the situation, the article claims that[...]

 If there's one thing Vince McMahon has learned over his many years, it's if you really want to hurt someone, hurt them in their wallets. So while such a grand gesture of displeasure from a WWE superstar is certainly attention-grabbing, it's far from the first time we have seen a situation like this happen[...]

Dwayne Johnson is doing everything he can to make sure XFL can succeed where the previous owner, WWE's Vince McMahon, failed… not once, but twice The football league struck a deal with Disney that will air games on its owned networks ESPN, FX, and ABC Network rivals FOX and NBC air USFL games, as both[...]

 Since 1997, when his longtime manager Paul Bearer introduced us to The Undertaker's younger brother, fellow WWE Hall of Famer Kane, and revealed that The Undertaker had burned down his family's funeral home in his youth, killing his parents and badly burning Kane, Taker's character was forever changed into someone who was now defined by his[...]

This latest juicy morsel comes via Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer Newsletter, where The Meltz discusses a memo sent by Vince McMahon himself explaining the reason for the most recent spate of ridiculous wrestler name changes And yes, comrades, it's exactly as we all suspected: the reason is pure spite, to prevent wrestlers from being able[...]

 They fight around ringside a bit before Moss runs Corbin off. We now go backstage to find Jinder Mahal screaming at Adam Pearce and demanding an Intercontinental title shot against Ricochet, but they're interrupted by Ronda Rousey and her sour puss as she demands an answer from Pearce about her I Quit Match against Flair. Drew McIntyre vs Sami Zayn Drew[...]

WWE built its legacy on WrestleMania, but recent practices have diminished the once bright & shining light of the company's core tradition.

Taking a page from the world he's known his entire life as well as the STARZ series Heels, WWE owner Vince McMahon is partnering up with Craig O'Neill and Tom Rinaldi to develop a new scripted series called Pinned that's set in a fictional wrestling promotion for NBC Universal O'Neill (CSI: Vegas, MacGyver) will write[...]

WWE Chairman Vince McMahon did something pretty rare this afternoon when he sat down for his first outside of WWE live interview in 15 years with SmackDown commentator Pat McAfee on today's episode of The Pat McAfee Show  The increasingly more reclusive McMahon promised McAfee he would be making a big WWE-related announcement on the show today and he didn't[...]

 Taker has been unofficially retired from the ring since his Boneyard Match against AJ Styles at WrestleMania 36 in 2020, a cinematic battle that surprised everyone by being an absolute blast that both served as a fun way to make do with the crowdless COVID era and a fitting way to send the Deadman off. After performing as[...]

 In addition to talking about his upbringing and his current home life on a remote farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, he also spoke freely about certain aspects of his WWE career that we've never heard from him before, at least in such a blunt and unguarded manner. Like all of WWE's top stars, Brock Lesnar has a[...]

WWE superstar Brock Lesnar sat down with Pat McAfee for a wide-ranging interview where the reclusive star actually opened up a bit.

WWE reportedly wants "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to return to the ring for a match at WrestleMania, despite having not wrestled for 19 years.

 WWE Hall of Famer "Stone Cold" Steve Austin stressed this in his WWE Network interview with WWE Chairman Vince McMahon 2014 when Austin said that he saw all the traits of a star in Cesaro, but wondered why company management wouldn't push him?  McMahon answered that he didn't think Cesaro had "it", which led Austin (himself someone[...]

Following the shocking news yesterday that Vince McMahon fired his own son, Shane McMahon, as a scapegoat for the poorly booked Royal Rumble PPV, a new report reveals that McMahon's cronies in WWE are trying to prevent AEW from hiring Shane by spreading rumors about his ego Though the report is based on anonymous sources,[...]

There is only Passion. Through Passion, I gain Strength. Through Strength, I gain Power. Through Power, I gain Victory. Through Victory my chains are Broken. The Force shall free me." So what can we read into with this?  There's the obvious association of WWE as "the Evil Empire" and Vince McMahon's ever-growing by-the-day resemblance to Emperor Palpatine[...]

It was a personal choice."  She continued to explain how Vince McMahon himself even tried discussing it with her to no avail "I remember sitting down with Vince because the entire two years I was there, we were tested every day, and I never popped positive I never had COVID the whole time[...]

 If that's how it came across to viewers, could it only have been better to those involved?  Not quite. Image: Screencap As predictable as the endings to this year's two Royal Rumble matches were once all of the pieces were on the table (hell, I predicted them earlier that day), it turns out that it was a long[...]

There's been a lot of speculation over the past year and change that Vince McMahon might actually be considering calling it a career and doing what was once completely unfathomable; selling WWE to another company  Even up to fairly recently, the assumption of everyone was that when McMahon stepped down, he'd pass the reigns to his[...]

 Many backstage mainstays and respected minds behind the original product, from scouts and producers such as William Regal and "Road Dogg" Jesse James up to the brand's creator and leader, Triple H, have been pushed out of the brand while Vince McMahon and Bruce Prichard reinvent NXT into their image, for better or worse. Image: Screencap One of the most respected coaches down in[...]

WWE may have dropped plans to turn Austrian wrestler Walter into a Nazi, but while NXT 2.0 may not have any U-boat commanders in its future, there is still one other kind of Nazi walking the WWE halls: a WWE release Nazi! Yes, Vince McMahon has once again refused to grant the release requested by[...]

 According to a new lawsuit filed by the wrestling promotion, it's the doing of the WWE and they're suing Vince McMahon's empire for violating antitrust laws and monopolizing the industry. Credit: Major League Wrestling MLW filed the lawsuit in California Federal Court yesterday and in it, they say WWE has directly interfered with potential TV deals they[...]

With Paul "Triple H" Levesque currently parked on his own special floor rug in Vince McMahon's dog house, Triple H's creation and personal passion project, NXT, has been in an ever-evolving state of flux since McMahon took over the development brand months ago  Last week, we learned of a number of backstage releases for the brand, including longtime WWE employees[...]

The XFL has failed twice under its founder and the previous owner Vince McMahon, only accumulating one full season in its original incarnation in 2001 and only five weeks of games to show for its 2020 reboot, though to be fair, that season and the league with it fell apart due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading[...]

 As we have seen over the past year, these releases seem to come in targeted waves and unfortunately, it seems that the staff of the Performance Center was the one in the crosshairs today. Of course, this all just further fuels speculation that the WWE is indeed up for sale as they continue to trim their[...]

And considering you're calling the event "Day 1" with the implication that it's the first day of a "fresh start," it would be a great way to live up to the hype instead of offering the same old, same old. Well, clearly Vince McMahon and his gaggle of writers also saw Reigns' absence as an opportunity[...]

 It appears to have even reached the top of WWE, as Chairman Vince McMahon and a number of the most powerful backstage names were absent at this past Monday's Raw  In the wake of all of this, WWE has now released an internal memo detailing new company protocols for combating COVID-19 that will be put into effect[...]

 Why, you might ask?  Because he has one more match left on his current WWE deal and he's waiting for a call from WWE Chairman Vince McMahon to find out when that will go down. WWE Hall of Famer Goldberg, seen here on the October 4, 2021 episode of Raw, says he has a shoulder injury that[...]