WWE Name Fired Due To ‘An Incident’

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A WWE Executive was recently fired from WWE for what was described as an “HR violation” with more details now being revealed.

It was revealed, on February 24, that WWE Senior Vice President of Talent Operations & Strategy James Kimball had been terminated due to the broad term of an “HR violation”.

Dave Meltzer has now provided further details, writing in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (subscription required):

“Senior Vice President of Talent Operations and Strategy James Kimball was fired last week. Fightful first broke the story and said it was due to a human resource violation.

“The only thing we heard is that there was an incident that happened but no details of exactly what it was.

“He was hired in August 2020 as Vice President of Business Operations and was promoted twice into his current position.

“He came to WWE after working for UFC from 2010 to 2020 where he was Vice President of Operations for the Performance Institute.

“Kimball was the point person for a lot of the tryouts WWE had been doing and for the NIL program with college athletes and was a big part of the process of trying to line up top-level college athletes for the company.”

Per the previous report, several WWE stars and UFC fighters were “surprised” by the termination.

Kimball had “worked closely” with Triple H during his tenure with the company.

Fightful Select did rule out any suggestion that it was “Vince McMahon making a firing upon his return to the company”.

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