WWE Sold?

holding stocks in a company is different than being the outright owner/having majority decision.

We get it 

Curious to see it’s outcome.
Stephanie already resigned, how much involvement would this new organization have creatively.
If HHH would have oversight creatively while caving to when the Business side influences creative?

With WWE under foreign influence, and no longer being a company of its own but brand to a organization.

Depending on how this unravels especially for Talent and impact on AEW?

I don't buy that.

A leak came out last March. Vince buried her prior to her resignation. Then an investigation gets launched. He fights to stay in his position, then resigns. As soon as he does, she's back in power

Years ago, there were talks about her inheriting the company. Vince barked that she can have the company if she can take it from him. That was covered in a magazine. I want to say the Rolling Stones

Now she's gone all over again

Let's be real. Vince was cheating on her mom. She had an interest in getting the company. They don't agree in direction. Vince knows that she will struggle to run it like he did. It's a human response that she would feel the need to screw him over, except that he had enough Class B stocks to make sure that that would never happen unless she was willing to have him be offed.

I don't know who leaked what, but whomever did so had to be close to the family. In my view, it was probably her.

My next post will deal with Vince himself. Sorry if this is badly written. I'm watching the pressure canner as I'm canning chicken stock.

My view on Vince McMahon is that his goal was always was always to get as wealthy as possible by monopolizing the wrestling industry. It's almost too predictable to have followed his money trail over the years to see why things got booked the way they did from national expansion into 2001.

2001 was the buyout, and McMahon clearly lost the telos from which he used to work since his telos was making money. Why wrestling declined from there can be attributed to two factors. First, his telos was to get rich, and he got far wealthier from investments and media connections than even the very best booking and what fans are willing to pay ever could offer him. They were grossing more money even 10 years ago than they ever were during the Attitude Era, for example. His telos never had anything to do with wrestling, in other words, as much as wrestling was a means to an end to getting rich

Second, the outcome from the aforementioned was that his product went from campy to mean-spirited, acts seemed to get hired and fired on a whim, Triple H was running the show like a Medieval feudal lord, Stephanie groomed to run the show, McMahon allowed to indulge his vices with impunity without risking liabilities as used to be the case before going corporate, and even the trademarks got really weird in ways I never saw before (Jesse and Jesse Gymini on the roster within a year or two is not something he ever would have done before)

Like a lot of really rich people, Vince thought he could do as he pleased, that WWE money was really his to play with as he felt like it (hence $3 million happys), and that he could do this in permanence. Along the way, he made enemies with his daughter, as is typical of inheritance disputes that bring out the worst in people, the fact that only his deepest inner circle would have known that he was squandering company funds to get laid, that she resented that he cheated on her mom. (I'm convinced that Stephanie leaked it. If not her, then Shane, though I'm not sure Shane would have had the balls to do that and he had nothing to gain beyond revenge anyway.) Being a woman and being in a post-MeToo period, I don't doubt on some level that that impacted her thinking, especially after Triple H nearly died.

What Vince didn't calculate since he's really a hillbilly is that the WSJ would air his dirty laundry where he paid a remarkable $18 million (?) over his vices. That's a lot of money. Those are like Michael Jackson level payoffs. It's pretty clear he didn't want any of that leaked

Once ousted over legal technicalities, I think McMahon had buyer's remorse for having gone corporate, even though his having had been private did put heat on him in the late 80's and, without having gone corporate, he never would have become a billionaire

He pulls a coup back on Stephanie, whom he taunted a few years ago that she can have the company if she can take it from him (I'm guessing "Ruthless Aggression" in Vince's world meant that she'd have to poison him), he positions himself to go private so the WSJ doesn't sniff around too much, and Vince can go back to hiring his bro friends and engaging in his vices without public activity

This timeline of events is starting to seem likely

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I mean this is Vince saying to his family, you this is mine and I’m selling it for money - you want it you pay me for it.

In a way there’s something to be said about that which is positive, do it on your own like I did etc, but it does suck hard for everyone who isn’t Vince or those buying it.

L O L

I have no words. But I can’t say I’m surprised.

He said 8.5 Billion is about 3 Billion more than what speculators were saying they could get.