Michelle McCool has posted a private backstage photo with Vince McMahon after news of The Chairman’s retirement, as seen below.
Vince McMahon has been WWE Chairman since 1982 when he bought WWE from his father Vince Sr and his partners. McMahon saw quite a few changes in his company over the last few decades on top of that. All through that, the WWE Chairman continued to adapt to the changing times.
However, many fans now feel that he is out of touch and simply has no idea what is good for a WWE Superstar and their growth. The WWE Chairman is larger than life in many ways and he also has his own oddities and problems as well. He also threatened a WWE star in a recent gym video. Vince McMahon has been accused of an affair.
Vince McMahon has stepped down as CEO of WWE while the investigation is ongoing. His daughter, Stephanie McMahon, has since been moved into his position on an interim basis. McMahon was still in charge of creative for the company.
However, he recently retired from WWE as well. On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said he does not expect McMahon’s particular way of saying words to remain.
“The weird verbiage will be gone. There’s nobody who’s going to insist on that. That was complete Vince. But, having said that, I shouldn’t say for sure, because Stephanie is Vince’s daughter.
Some of the verbiage and Stephanie is really big on buzz words and everything like that, so some it may stay, but the really weird quirky stuff, I do think that that will be gone.”
Bryan Alvarez pointed out some huge changes on Friday Night Smackdown as well.
“Even watching SmackDown tonight, I mean obviously tonight is still, you know, they re-wrote portions of the show and everything like that, but I mean the commentary was more relaxed, there was nobody screaming at the announcers on the headsets.
The New Day was out there. They mentioned Ring of Honor. They mentioned the IWGP Tag Team Titles. Michael Cole was talking about the fans and he actually called them fans, he didn’t say ‘the WWE Universe,’ he said ‘the WWE fans,’ so there were little things on the show that, to me, made the show already feel more organic than it did even a week ago.
Given, you know, Hunter… He was willing to push guys that didn’t have the Vince McMahon look and the Vince McMahon body and the whole nine. He was willing to look at the top stars on the indie scene. So, I am hopeful that we will see more of that and less of this very, very rigid [broadcast style].”
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