Former WWE Name Recalls Creating ‘Anti WWE Product’ Under Vince McMahon Regime

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Former WWE Vice President of Global Television Production Michael Mansury has recalled creating an ‘anti-WWE product’ under the Vince McMahon regime.

Mansury worked for WWE from 2009 to 2020, while Vince McMahon was still leading the company. During his time with the company, many believed that he’d be the eventual successor to Kevin Dunn.

Speaking on The Sessions with Renee Paquette Mansury reflected on his time working on the NXT brand.

Opening up about the ‘anti WWE product’, Mansury said:

“To this day, probably the most magical in my career (Mansury said about his time working on NXT) and as cheesy as it sounds to use a word… you (Renee Paquette) were there, you were a part of it, you know.

“While still under the WWE umbrella, we were kind of all together creating the anti-WWE product.

“It was a combination of just good old-fashioned sports entertainment from the late 80s where we’re creating all these characters but also leaning into what wrestling had become in the early 2010s.

“You’re hearing all the buzz about Ring of Honor, PWG, all these promotions have, right? And in essence, a lot of the very best of the best from the indie scene found themselves at NXT but a nice litany of folks had converted over from being — you know, guys like Baron Corbin who were in the NFL, etcetera.

“So there was this nice collection of talent down there and there was a collection of talent behind the scenes that were all hungry and looking to establish themselves and I don’t know that anything in my career is gonna replicate what those first few years of NXT were like because it really was just an unbelievably special moment and it just felt like a movement, you know what I mean?”

Mansury has now been hired by AEW to serve as the promotion’s Senior Vice President & Co-Executive Producer.

Transcription via POST Wrestling.

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