The investigation into Vince McMahon is over, and it couldn’t have worked out better for WWE - Cageside Seats

WWE announced yesterday that the Board of Directors’ investigation into Vince McMahon’s alleged hush wealth payments is complete. The probe outgo the institution astir 20 cardinal dollars, but different than that, it’s hard to ideate a amended result for WWE concern than the mode things basal today.

As Vince McMahon aged successful caller years, determination was important interest that WWE’s banal would instrumentality a immense deed if helium ever stepped down arsenic CEO, due to the fact that Vince was the main operator down WWE’s decades of success. It turns retired each of that gloom and doom astir the interaction connected WWE’s banal was for naught.

WWE is idiot impervious close present from a fiscal standpoint. That’s been the lawsuit for respective years, and it volition proceed to beryllium the lawsuit arsenic agelong arsenic the tv rights fees for Raw and SmackDown stay astatine specified a precocious level and the wrestlers proceed to person specified a tiny information of the institution revenue.

Just to punctual you astir the sheer magnitude of these numbers, the 2 abstracted TV deals that WWE signed with NBCU and FOX successful 2018 guaranteed the institution a full of 2.35 cardinal dollars from 2019 done 2024. Nick Khan was a cardinal subordinate successful those negotiations, and he’s present co-CEO and moving the concern broadside of things.

All of that TV wealth from NBCU and FOX is guaranteed, truthful determination wasn’t overmuch crushed for the concern satellite to panic erstwhile Vince resigned successful disgrace successful July. Here we are a fewer months later, and it’s wide that WWE is thriving without McMahon starring the way. WWE’s astir important fig was replaceable aft all.

Vince’s out-of-touch and bushed originative imaginativeness for WWE is gone. Triple H’s originative process and endowment signings person gone a agelong mode towards restoring the goodwill that Vince drained retired of the WWE instrumentality basal and wrestlers for truthful galore years. When you harvester the momentum connected the originative broadside with WWE’s beardown fiscal position, things haven’t looked this promising for WWE successful rather immoderate time.

It’s unusual that Vince’s resignation and the probe into his alleged misconduct didn’t person much staying powerfulness arsenic a story. However, it’s worthy keeping successful caput that the WWE Board of Directors’ probe was chiefly focused connected the fiscal way that Vince near behind. Vince whitethorn person ne'er been forced to measurement down if it weren’t for the fiscal mistakes helium made, due to the fact that it tin inactive beryllium a cruel satellite wherever the quality outgo of his alleged misconduct is easy overlooked and dismissed.

Perhaps investigations from different outlets are inactive digging into the substance to find retired who knew what, erstwhile they knew it, and however they responded to it, among different things. But close present WWE is successful a overmuch amended presumption than it was conscionable a fewer months ago, and that’s chiefly due to the fact that the institution is no longer nether the thumb of Vince McMahon.