Report: Vince McMahon ‘Overruled’ & Power ‘Marginalized’

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Following news of Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel reportedly granting Paul Levesque (Triple H) full creative control of WWE’s product rather than Vince McMahon, a new report has now cast further light on McMahon’s current power within the company.

While Levesque has served as WWE’s Chief Content Officer since Vince McMahon’s WWE ‘retirement’ in July 2022, upon McMahon’s return to WWE at the beginning of the year, it had been reported that the 78-year-old once again had final say on the company’s product.

This led to reports of McMahon making script changes, most notably the Raw after WrestleMania 39, however, in recent months there has been far less news of similar occurrences happening, something evident by WWE’s product, which has had an undoubted Triple H feel to it.

Just as it seemed like it was starting to happen again though, it appears the last couple of weeks have been a different story.

Following the latest report on Emanuel granting Triple H ‘full influence’ over WWE’s product, Dave Meltzer has discussed the situation on the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, discussing how Emanuel’s stance has seemingly changed on McMahon’s power recently.

Meltzer explained:

“Well, he’s out of creative. It’s a big story because Ari Emanuel, when they were on the verge of closing the deal, and had actually closed the deal in April, did media rounds and (said), ‘Vince will be in charge of the company (WWE), and if me and Vince have a disagreement, it goes the way Vince wants because Vince is the guy’.

“So then the deal went through, it only really went through about a month ago, and already, Vince is out of creative because of Ari Emanuel.

“So this is a real interesting thing because it is the first time – Vince is now in the position that his father was in in ‘84 when his father had run the company for years and years and years, and (then) he was just an employee of Vince Jr.

“Although he hates that term – Vincent Kennedy McMahon. Vincent Kennedy McMahon was the guy making all the decisions, and now, Vince was in fact overruled, even though when he merged the company he was told this would not happen.

“It did happen. And it’s a really interesting thing. And that statement when Ari Emanuel was talking about the reasons the stock is down, and he mentioned Vince’s name.

“So, it is very interesting I think what is going to happen. But Vince’s power’s clearly marginalized, there’s no way around that.”

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Triple H’s latest shake-up to WWE’s on-screen product was by separating control of Raw and SmackDown to two separate General Managers for the first time in years.

This saw former NWA and IMPACT World Champion Nick Aldis be appointed SmackDown GM while Adam Pearce takes on the same role for Monday Night Raw.

For more news on other figures involved in WWE’s creative setup click here.

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