{"id":114729,"date":"2022-07-22T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=114729"},"modified":"2022-07-22T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T20:19:52","slug":"vince-mcmahon-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/07\/22\/vince-mcmahon-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince McMahon Retires from WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinceMcMahon\/status\/1550572700959121408\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official Twitter account<\/a> of WWE&#8217;s long-time Chairman of the Board Vince McMahon has tweeted out that it is time for him to retire. The Tweet states: &#8220;At 77, time for me to retire. Thank you, WWE Universe.\u00a0 Then. Now. Forever. Together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was followed up by a <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.wwe.com\/news\/company-news\/2022\/07-22-2022a\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corporate press release<\/a> stating that Stephanie McMahon (recently named interim-CEO) and Nick Khan are the new co-CEOs of the company.<\/p>\n<h2>Vince McMahon Retires<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At 77, time for me to retire. <br \/>Thank you, WWE Universe.\u00a0 <br \/>Then. Now. Forever. Together. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thankful?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#thankful<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vince McMahon (@VinceMcMahon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinceMcMahon\/status\/1550572700959121408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This retirement comes at the peak of a scandal involving McMahon and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/media\/2022\/07\/08\/wwe-vince-mcmahon-hush-monday-nda-affairs\/10016621002\/#:~:text=Report%3A%20WWE&#039;s%20Vince%20McMahon%20paid,to%20hush%20sexual%20misconduct%20allegations&amp;text=WWE%20boss%20Vince%20McMahon%20paid,Wall%20Street%20Journal%20reported%20Friday.\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number of NDAs<\/a> signed by former WWE employees alleging he paid them off for their silence regarding various sexual matters.<\/p>\n<p>The WWE&#8217;s press release states:<\/p>\n<p>Vince McMahon today released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I approach 77 years old, I feel it\u2019s time for me to retire as Chairman and CEO of WWE. Throughout the years, it\u2019s been a privilege to help WWE bring you joy, inspire you, thrill you, surprise you, and always entertain you. I would like to thank my family for mightily contributing to our success, and I would also like to thank all of our past and present Superstars and employees for their dedication and passion for our brand. Most importantly, I would like to thank our fans for allowing us into your homes every week and being your choice of entertainment. I hold the deepest appreciation and admiration for our generations of fans all over the world who have liked, currently like, and sometimes even love our form of Sports Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur global audience can take comfort in knowing WWE will continue to entertain you with the same fervor, dedication, and passion as always. I am extremely confident in the continued success of WWE, and I leave our company in the capable hands of an extraordinary group of Superstars, employees, and executives \u2013 in particular, both Chairwoman and Co-CEO Stephanie McMahon and Co-CEO Nick Khan. As the majority shareholder, I will continue to support WWE in any way I can. My personal thanks to our community and business partners, shareholders, and Board of Directors for their guidance and support through the years. Then. Now. Forever. Together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official Twitter account of WWE&#8217;s long-time Chairman of the Board Vince McMahon has tweeted out that it is time for him to retire. The Tweet states: &#8220;At 77, time for me to retire. Thank you, WWE Universe.\u00a0 Then. Now. Forever. Together.&#8221; This was followed up by a corporate press release stating that Stephanie McMahon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":31547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2192,4,3],"tags":[241],"class_list":["post-114729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wrestling","category-wwe","category-wwe-universe","tag-vince-mcmahon"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}