[PWInsider] ENDEAVOR ANNOUNCES CLOSE OF WWE ACQUISITION
[PWInsider] ENDEAVOR ANNOUNCES CLOSE OF WWE ACQUISITION
tl;dr - 'tis done.
All I can really come up with is that he really was telling the truth in his nWo promo... this is my creation and I'm going to kill it...
Obviously, it's not dead, but it seems odd he dislikes his kids so much he doesn't want them to have it.
And.... my final note, somebody in the TKO graphics department really loved the THQ logo, because that was my first thought on seeing their logo.
I completely agree on the THQ font. I had to do a double-take when I saw it.
And I want to find that Vince/ nWo promo on Youtube. That sounds exactly like what's going on.
I saw it again today, and I still see the THQ logo. Somebody else said it looks like the old Fastlane logo they just put the swoosh under it.
You know, I thought this day would never come. I figured Vince would sooner die than sell.
Turned out all it took was actually having to hand the company down to his children to change his mind.
Yeah, it is still pretty surreal to me. Is it just the money? Because he is sacrificing power, which is pretty much antithetical to what I know of Vince. And it isn't just his his children, but his children who would effectively canonize him with rose-colored glasses. It is nice to think there would be a big shift if Triple H and Stephanie took over, and there might've been, but WWE has always mythologized the past to the point that (for most people) WWE is wrestling/sports entertainment. That's probably the closest to godhood he could've had. Now, what? He's gunna rot away as a board member of this amalgamation? More billionaires with bad ideas will get their fingers on the product? Idk. If there is one thing I've learned about the industry in the last 5-10 years, it's that you can't predict anything.
I feel (as the uninformed choad I am of course) that when he 'retired' he both realized A) (power-wise) he loathed seeing the product go on and prosper without him at the helm as WWE was his baby, even if it was family running the show, and B) (money-wise) with the lawsuits & legal troubles popping up he probably felt he could make more money if he sold the company, than he would make in however much time he had left running it himself with those aforementioned legal issues causing problems and the board/investors possibly not wanting him around much more.
But again I'm an idiot so lol~
To be fair, his dad didn't give him the WWF, he had to buy it off of him.
Obviously, Shane and Stephanie weren't going to make billions, so ultimately the only way forward was for him to sell to the highest bidder.
Honestly, I'd be shocked if Vince left anything to his kids. He'll probably leave his money to Trump, some random woman from his past, or Roman Reigns, over giving it to his flesh and blood.
I feel like we all just collectively stopped talking about the fact that Vince McMahon, the current chairman of this new company, systemically assaulted and abused female talent for years - with at least one female talent ultimately taking her own life from it - and suffered no penalty for it.