FORMER professional wrestling supremo Vince McMahon will not secretly run WWE "from the shadows" after his retirement.
McMahon, 76, rolled credits on his 40-year career shortly after recent allegations claiming he paid hush money to several women who have alleged sexual misconduct between 2006 and 2022.
That sent shockwaves around the wrestling world as few expected the American businessman, who remains as the company's majority shareholder, would ever walk away of the throne.
And that created a popular conspiracy theory that he is still in charge from the sidelines – AEW superstar and WWE legend CM Punk also predicted recently that the 76-year-old is still not done with WWE.
According to Fightful, however, McMahon's retirement is legitimate as SummerSlam and the last two RAW episodes wouldn't look the way they did if the former Chairman was still in charge.
His daughter Stephanie has replaced him in charge as Chairwoman and co-CEO alongside co-CEO Nick Khan, while her husband and wrestling legend Triple H is now Head of Creative.
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A source told Sean Ross Sapp's outlet: "If Vince McMahon was still involved to any degree, neither SummerSlam or WWE RAW would have resembled what they looked like.
"Dakota [Kai] would not have been brought back, RAW would have been several SummerSlam rematches."
Fightful added that McMahon has limited access to gaining information about how the company is being run after his departure.
A report from PWInsider backs the aforementioned findings as it claims the former CEO has no involvement other than owning the majority of the publicly traded company's stock.
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The report reads: "Vince McMahon is not involved with the company in any official capacity beyond his ownership of the majority of the company’s stock.
"He has not been involved in any meetings or any company communication."
Mike Johnson's outlet added: "It would be illegal for a publicly traded company to do such a thing and if that was outed, all hell would break loose on a criminal level."
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