Vince McMahon "retires" Megathread

Loughc · 12-03-2024 10:30am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121881822#Comment_121881822

Do you have confirmation of this? Like a link?

Insect Overlord · 12-03-2024 11:31am

Looks like PTH just dropped an image and never shared the source with it...

rob316 · 12-03-2024 11:36am

Endeavour really need to clear house and take a long hard look into Triple H too to be sure.

Necro · 12-03-2024 12:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121882616#Comment_121882616

Quick reverse image search on google shows it's a graphic from July 2023

Haha classic PTH😂

briany · 12-03-2024 1:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121882643#Comment_121882643

Right now it's looking like there won't be single 'original' working there by the time this saga ends, and what I must wonder to myself is whether this is something that Emmanuel had planned all along. The timing of it seems very convenient.

I see Paul Heyman is getting inducted into the HoF. I have a suspicion that it could be Heyman who gets the job as creative head if Triple H is forced to suddenly retire. He may be far enough from the controversy (by a degree of millimeters, admittedly) to just about hang in there.

PTH2009 · 12-03-2024 2:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121882975#Comment_121882975

Probably wasn't the only one haha

Sorry about that

JP Liz V1 · 12-03-2024 4:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121882317#Comment_121882317

@PTH2009 got me

It looks like Brock is back listed on the active roster from alumni

https://www.sescoops.com/wwe/brock-lesnar-wwe-roster-status

Lord TSC · 12-03-2024 6:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121884208#Comment_121884208

ive seen people bring that up a few times in Reddit, and the response is always he was never actually taken off it.

Patrick Mahomes · 12-03-2024 6:45pm

Triple H must have gone blind and deaf a decade ago not to know what was going on with his wife and father in law and with other executives in the company he was an executive in.

Regards,

P.

rob316 · 12-03-2024 6:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121883156#Comment_121883156

There is no chance in hell (excuse the pun) that Stephanie and Khan didn't cover up for Vince previously.

briany · 12-03-2024 7:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121884649#Comment_121884649

Stephanie's absolutely up to her neck in the seediness of WWE, I would say. I know Nick Khan has been named in the lawsuit in some way, but I would be surprised if he's as involved as everyone else, though I obviously cannot rule this out. Nick Khan is an actual proper business person, as opposed to some depraved wrestling carny in a suit. If he'd seen that kind of thing going on, I'd imagine his self preservation instinct would have kicked in forthwith and gotten well the hell away from it.

Bounty Hunter · 14-03-2024 4:39pm

I think people need to not read too much into certain things and tar everyone with the same brush. Being named in the lawsuit does not mean you are dirty. Vince it really seems is an evil auld b@stard and obviously Johnny Ace and co seem very complicit and willing to turn on each other and all get pulled down.

I think I heard Kahn for example is implicated and the worst allegation against him is that Ms Grant says he said he knew very well who she was and was cold towards her when she introduced herself. I would not suggest she lied about this but really that could mean something like he knew she and Vince were up to innapropriate stuff behind closed doors and (perhaps didn't know more /to what extent because) he didn't approve of it and wanted no involvement with it.

I'm not defnding anyone here but I would guess the behind the scenes has been modernizing at a breakneck speed (because this industry has been in the stone-age and closed off from the public for so long) the past few years and certain dinosaurs have probably been thinking they were just turning a blind eye to some of Vince, that auld rapskallion's, affairs and perhaps not knowing that what was going on was actually far far worse.

briany · 15-03-2024 5:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121893162#Comment_121893162

Unfortunately for Mr. Kahn, this kind of situation is almost binary, meaning no degrees of the thing will be tolerated. If he's in any way linked to facilitating what allegedly went on with McMahon and this woman, he'll be shown the door.

J. Marston · 15-03-2024 6:05pm

It's hard to believe that the likes of Stephanie and HHH didn't know about Vince and his assistant. Think about how people talk and gossip in work. You have a young, presumably attractive, assistant hired for a bogus job. You can only imagine the whispering and bitching going on about her in that office environment. They'd have to have heard something about it.

The only thing they can plausibly deny is they didn't know the level of debauched shít he was doing.

Agent Coulson · 16-03-2024 11:52am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121897747#Comment_121897747

Yeah I'd agree and this WWE was also a publicly traded company this time and Khan was answerable to the shareholders of that company and if he knew the job created for the woman was a fake job then he is also tangentially invloved in facilitating the abuse.

So later on as Co-CEO with Steph and one of the people tasked to investage claim against Vince he knew the job he signed off on was a fake job yet he since found no issue with that investigation and reinstaged Vince.

So he was completely incompetent for the position he was in (Which I highly doubt) or he turned a blind eye which is even worse.

Patrick Mahomes · 22-03-2024 3:41am

Doesn’t look like Ronda is holding back in her book about Vince, Johnny or Bruce.

Regards,

P.

Necro · 22-03-2024 11:26am

Mod: deleted a crass post and a response to it there. No need for it.

The Moist Buddha · 22-03-2024 11:37am

i only asked a question, a yes or no answer would have sufficed

bucketybuck · 22-03-2024 11:58am

Why does "knowing" about McMahon giving a fake job to his lover make other people criminal as well?

Its not giving his lover a job that was the problem, it was the coercion and illegal crap that happened behind closed doors.

I know a guy who gave his nephew a cushy job, do I become a criminal if it turns out there was something dodgy going on between them back at home?

Lots of people will know McMahon was involved with this woman, but relationships aren't illegal, just knowing about it doesn't mean they were involved. For example, if Mahon told his PA to book a hotel room, then later abused the woman in it, is the PA a criminal for booking a hotel room for what she thought were two consenting adults?

CastorTroy · 22-03-2024 12:01pm

Just had a quick look at what she said since it's a bit soon after the recent allegations to have a book out. But seems she's just criticising him and the company over the years.

SteM · 22-03-2024 1:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121924579#Comment_121924579

I heard a recent interview with her and she calls the WWE a shitshow but she didn't clarify in what way exactly. My guess is there'll be very little criticism of the WWE in the book but she'll bury them in any interview she does.

She joined the WWE in 2018ish didn't she? It's hard to believe that being a wrestling fan she didn't know what McMahon was like before she joined, people were talking about him for years.

Lord TSC · 22-03-2024 1:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121925396#Comment_121925396

It actually is a legal misdemeanor if they facilitated giving someone a job purely because Vince wanted his bit on the side close to hand. As far as I know, especially because of it being a publicly traded company, you can't just hire your lover into a position she's not qualified for. It's not the most egregious of crimes, but it is something you're not allowed do in the business world. It's not that they knew. It's they actively facilitated it, in a very problematic manner.

And it's probably for this exact reason, where it opens you and the business up to loads of other issues if and when it goes wrong, that you can get in legal hot water for it....