Vince McMahon "retires" *Megathread*

Vince will only truly be gone when he is dead and even then he'll probably pop back up for a casket match

The Legendary TNA tag team VKM return to the Impact Zone managed by VKM

Firstly, he's probably working on dealing with whatever allegations are fixing to come out against him, plus dealing with whatever business that comes with being a majority stockholder. There's no way he's sitting idle. Lifting weights is all well and good but I don't think it wouldn't provide the mental stimulation that business does. Not for Vince, anyway.

Unless the allegations are of a serious criminal and credible nature, I expect to see Vince back in WWE at some point.

Also should be stated that Vince was once the man who during the steroid trial, was planning that if he should lose he would continue running wwe from jail. As insane as that sounds that was the plan thrown around. X-Pac and Bret Hart both mentioned this in interviews.

Jerry Jarrett was going to be brought in to run the day to day operations. That's right, Jeff's dad. So when you look at it that's the type of guy McMahon is.

You have to think this retirement is all for show.

Quite the turnaround for HHH.

He’s gone from losing control of NXT to running all WWE creative

Would Vince's business side be missed ?

ie for getting the big stadium deals for Wrestlemania etc, No doubt Nick Kahn and SMH have great business pedigree

Cant 't ever see Nick Kahn been a on screen figure though

Thing is, WWE is a brand. It's what sells. Am sure Vince has made many business relationships with owners and operational managers (etc) of various stadiums and big venues but it won't matter if Vince left. WWE the brand is bigger than Vince McMahon.

Interesting tidbit: Accordingly in the 80s Vince slowly, overtime, reduced the visual hierarchy of his top stars and made the brand more prominently to push the brand more. It's very interesting.

Here is 1986:

Modern era:

Obviously I'm delighted, a great few days. You knew once he died the skeletons would come out of the closet, but at that stage he's dead and he doesn't have to face any consequences for his actions, at least this way he gets just a small taste of comeupance. A monster, not too dissimilar to Harvey Weinstein, who has been exposed to the wider world for exactly what he is. That's his legacy, nothing else.

So why then are the Securities And Exchanges and Federal investigators looking into it if he used his own money?

The SEC because they should have been recorded as company expenses. The NDAs needed to be reported/disclosed (because apparantly they benefit the company and can affect the share price) and the payments recorded as non reimbursable expenses.

FEDs probably because of the misconduct/coercement allegations

He did not use the companies money. That's what he is in trouble for (in this specific area). People misunderstood the initial tweet.

They're actually saying that legally he SHOULD have used the company money.