Shane McMahon may be angling for a return in WWE after his father Vince’s exit, PWTorch.com reports.
PWTorchVIP.com states via WrestlingNews.co, “Stephanie and Shane are said to have a firm divide and jealousy or attempts to interrupt the transfer of power won’t be received well by people in key positions in management and Shane is said to not have may personal alliances left in WWE.”
Vince McMahon recently retired at 77. He announced that he is retiring from his roles as Chairman and CEO of WWE. It was later clarified that he was also done with his work on creative. As of now Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan are Co-CEOs of WWE, while Triple H is EVP of Talent Relations.
Vince McMahon departure was recently decided
PW Insider reported that Vince took the decision to retire out of his own choice and made it about a week or as far as 10 days ago. The former WWE chairman also sent out an internal memo to all WWE employees regarding his retirement.
“We are told that the decision was made to place Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan into the co-CEO role shortly after it was clear that McMahon would be exiting. The timing of releasing it on a Friday afternoon was obviously to blunt any negative fallout in terms of media and stockholder response.”
A new update emerged to that initial report by Fightful Select has revealed there are rumors among talent that expect Kevin Dunn to be the next to leave, though for now Dunn and Bruce Prichard were the points of contact on SmackDown. Dunn was also a part of the talent meeting that was held earlier yesterday. There is a 50-50 chance that Brichard might be departing the company, while Dunn is expected to leave by the end of the year.
One thing of note is that when the same talent speculated that John Laurinaitis was being let go from the company, that ended up being the case, and now they’ve talked about Dunn being gone next. If Dunn did leave the company, that would mean another major shift for WWE in a matter of a few days. No other shifts have been confirmed or announced by WWE, but if Dunn leaves, it will be another major change behind the scenes.
