It looks like one of the final dominoes in the end of Vince McMahon’s legacy has fallen as he’s reportedly resigned from his position and duties on the TKO board, effectively severing ties with the WWE following a lawsuit accusing him of sex trafficking a former WWE employee.
The new broke curtesy of Sean Ross Sapp on X, formerly Twitter, when he shared an alleged memo Nick Kahn sent to some of the staff:
“I wanted to inform you that Vince McMahon has tendered his resignation from his positions as TKP Executive Chairman and on the TKP Board of Directors. He will no longer have a role with TKP Group Holding or WWE.
Nick Kahn”
Major news. Vince McMahon resigned from all roles with TKO.
The following was sent to some staff pic.twitter.com/kTZbpooTu7
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) January 27, 2024
One too many hits
This news came a day after the Wall Street Journal shared the story of a lawsuit brought against McMahon for allegedly sex trafficking a former employee at WWE headquarters from 2019 to 2022.
The woman gave a graphic and disturbing account that had many coming to her defense and calling for McMahon to go to prison if the allegations were true.
This was after he faced accusations of paying off former employees and wrestlers following alleged sexual acts.
He retired then, but later forced his way back on the WWE board of directors along with a pair of allies to prepare the company for sale, which the WWE was bought by UFC’s parent company and the new conglomerate was renamed TKO.
Tarnished legacy
For the last 40 years, McMahon has built the WWE, then the WWF, from a regional company owned and operated by his father, Vince Sr., into a worldwide phenomena.
His system was groundbreaking at the time as he focused on high quality production values and sent his tapes across the country into other companies’ territories.
This led to him getting television deals, which would be the backbone of WWE going forward, and allowed him to bring in the best wrestlers from the other companies and force his competition to either sell to him or go out of business.
From the Rock N Wrestling of the 1980s when the WWE became mainstream with Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, and others, to the Monday Night Wars in the late 1990s against WCW, he helped bring us some of the most memorable moments in sports entertainment history.
While he deserves to be remembered for what he did for the business, there’s no doubt his legacy will be tarnished by these accusations, and if they’re true they could define his legacy.
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