A recent report from the Wall Street Journal claimed that Vince McMahon paid $12 million dollars to four different women over the course of 16 years to “suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity.” The report also claimed that $7.5 million was paid out to a former WWE star who Vince allegedly declined to re-sign after they refused to engage in sexual acts with him.
Vince McMahon was reportedly no selling the report at SmackDown last week, but Dave Meltzer noted on Wrestling Observer Radio that people in WWE have a variety of different viewpoints on the topic.
“I heard from a couple of talent backstage. A total variety of views, it wasn’t like there’s one view or anything – it was actually three totally different views. One person was (saying), ‘You know what you get into when you get into the business’. Another person (said) Vince didn’t sell it and nobody’s really talking about it because you don’t want to talk about it, because if someone hears you talk about it you get in trouble and no-one needs that.
“One person was very concerned in the sense of, they felt that it’s one thing to pay money if you’re trying to hide an affair or something like that, but once it becomes coercion, and once it ties into the business and the work and demotion and things like that, it becomes a really concerning issue. I’m sure there’s 20 other viewpoints as well. I didn’t get a sense at all of a prevailing viewpoint.”
Stay tuned for more updates on the Vince McMahon situation as they become available.
H/T WrestleTalk.com
