BREAKING NEWS: Vince McMahon Returns | POST News 1/6
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🗓️ 6 January 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock is joined by Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics to discuss Vince McMahon’s power play to return to WWE’s board of directors.
The two discuss all the moving parts that have led to McMahon reinstalling himself along with former co-presidents George Barrios & Michelle Wilson to the board, the outgoing board members including two resignations, the reaction on Wall Street, and what this all means for the future of the company.
Related links:
- WSJ: Vince McMahon plots return to WWE (Jan. 5, 2023)
- WSJ: Vince McMahon faces fresh demand from women alleging sexual abuse (Dec. 13, 2022)
- Press Release: WWE provides update
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to a special breaking news edition here at Post Wrestling. |
| 0:06.2 | I am John Pollock and plenty going on in the world of professional wrestling and I know |
| 0:11.6 | that everyone is here to get our thoughts on a battle of the belt five tonight but that |
| 0:16.0 | is going to have to wait because joining me now the only man that could have to receive |
| 0:20.9 | the the bat signal that I sent out on Thursday night joining me here from Russell nomics |
| 0:24.9 | himself Brandon Thurston is with us. |
| 0:27.3 | Hello Brandon. |
| 0:28.3 | Hey John I heard that I broke the news to you yesterday afternoon about the Wall Street |
| 0:32.3 | Journal story and I mean you got to reply saying well you come on tomorrow and I sent |
| 0:37.3 | you a one word reply yes and then later I got the the update to really underscore the |
| 0:44.2 | significance Brandon has taken the day off of you know it's a big deal when I can't imagine |
| 0:51.0 | trying to do this today. |
| 0:53.0 | Yeah this morning as I'm you know gathering all of this stuff and we're going to you |
| 0:57.6 | know try to parse through all of this information as best we can and sort of make sense of it. |
| 1:02.7 | It was like I don't even know how to begin to tackle all of this with your brand and so |
| 1:06.7 | I will ask you this question if your mother was to call you up today and say what's going |
| 1:11.9 | on with Vince McMahon and the WWE in a concise recap how would you best describe what has |
| 1:19.8 | happened over well it goes beyond 24 hours but what has actualized itself in this past 12 |
| 1:27.2 | to 18 hour period. |
| 1:29.2 | First I would send her a link to my to my video on the fall of Vince McMahon tell her |
| 1:32.6 | to watch that and then once she's done with patron mom once she's done watching that tell |
| 1:37.0 | her okay forget all that so I guess that you know Vince McMahon is not a normal executive |
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