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Vince Russo, Jonathan Coachman & More Say Vince McMahon Won’t Return To WWE
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Count Vince Russo, Jonathan Coachman, Maven and Charly Arnoldt among those WWE alumni who say Vince McMahon won’t be returning to WWE. McMahon resigned from the company in the wake of Janel Grant’s sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit against him in January, and the topic of whether he might one day return came up during the panel discussion about McMahon on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Longtime WWE critic Phil Mushnick said he believed McMahon would “always be omnipresent” but the rest of the panel disagreed. You can see highlights below, per Wrestling Inc:
Arnolt on McMahon being done in WWE: “They’re bringing in people that never before really had any business in the wrestling industry. You have [Nick] Khan running the show over on the WWE side; you have UFC swooping in, buying WWE, TKO Group owning both of them. They’re clearly going in a different direction, where they’re very much geared towards entertainment. It’s so much different than it used to be.”
Coachman on WWE moving past McMahon: “We’re not here to defend Vince. What we’re here to defend is that there are good parts of the business. There are good people that are in this business, and when you do a wide sweeping — just everything is negative — it’s very, very shortsighted, especially when you look at the last 25 years, and you see these good people. Vince is done. Vince is not coming back, and we’re all cool with that. And he doesn’t need to come back, because they fixed a lot of the things that were issues during all of our times in the WWE.”
Maven on McMahon: “Vince is definitely done. I think the world’s moved on. It’s a different time, and it’s a different generation than the one that Vince knew.”
Russo on TKO not bringing McMahon back: “Ari Emanuel would have to be the stupidest businessman on the face of the planet to still have any association with Vince McMahon. And, obviously, looking at the success of his company, he’s not. 1,000%, Vince has nothing to do with WWE today.”
