It’s been over a year since the TKO merger took place and WWE has gone through some interesting changes since then. Vince McMahon is no longer part of TKO, but TKO President and COO Mark Shapiro recently noted that he met with Vince McMahon a few weeks ago during an interview with CNBC.
“I had breakfast with him a few weeks ago. Just to check in, been a long time, haven’t heard from him at all. Obviously the series on Netflix came out. I wanted to see kind of where he was.
“By the way, he couldn’t have been more cooperative, he couldn’t have been nicer, he was a total pro, at breakfast if you will, it’s a one-on-one get together. But, he’s out of the business entirely. He doesn’t make decisions, he’s not on the Board, he doesn’t opine, we don’t consult him.
“He’s got some litigation that he’s working through, and frankly he wants the privacy and the time to work through it. Which is great, because in the meantime, we’re going to keep building TKO and WWE, and expanding the horizon, expanding the opportunities. And by the way, he’s still a shareholder – not the shareholder he once was, but he’s still a shareholder.”
When asked if Vince McMahon was supportive of WWE’s current direction Mark Shapiro said, “Couldn’t have been more positive, but I wasn’t asking for his opinion.”
TKO Group Chief Operating Officer Mark Shapiro said he had breakfast with WWE co-founder Vince McMahon “a few weeks ago just to check in.”
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