It was recently announced that WWE made a deal with Endeavor that will see the company merge with UFC to form one new publicly traded company. When the announcement was made Vince McMahon appeared on CNBC and when he was asked if he would be getting involved with creative he said “yes and no” then followed up by adding that he wouldn’t be “in the weeds.”
Since then there’s been a lot of speculation regarding how involved Vince will be with creative and what impact that could have on Triple H’s role. During an interview with Lightshed Live, Nick Khan addressed the current state of WWE creative and he said that Triple H is still in charge, but Vince McMahon is available to give input.
“When this deal was officially announced, Monday morning, Vince sent out a company-wide email to our thousand or so employees, including myself. And in the email, he laid out the structure of the NewCo, which certainly you guys have read about and are familiar with.
In addition to Vince being the Executive Chairman, Ari Emanuel being the CEO, Mark Shapiro being the President, Dana White continuing as President of UFC, and me at WWE — specifically Vince articulated that Paul Levesque remains the sole chief creative officer. Sole.
So, how does it work? Does that mean because I’m technically in charge of the business side of the business that I don’t seek input from other people? Or I wouldn’t seek input from Vince McMahon, who created this entire empire? That would be a mistake on my behalf.
Paul and Vince, have a family relationship, a relationship that stands back to the mid-90s. Paul’s in charge of creative. If he wants input from Vince or Vince has ideas then he and Paul are gonna communicate, that’s always gonna be the case. We’re lucky to have Vince. We’re lucky to have Paul in control of creative.”
It seems that Vince McMahon has been making some subtle changes to WWE programming recently and you can get more on that here. Stay tuned for more updates on the status of WWE creative as they become available.
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