Stephanie McMahon Taking Leave Of Absence From WWE, Nick Khan Taking Over Role | WRESTLING NEWS
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🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Yesterday Stephanie McMahon announced she was taking a leave of absence from WWE. We have details on the backstage reaction to the news and what this could possibly mean for WWE on a wider scale.
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| 0:00.0 | Stephanie McMahon to take a leave of absence from |
| 0:04.2 | W. W. E. for Friday, May the 20th, 2022. |
| 0:09.7 | This is your cultaholic wrestling news. |
| 0:12.4 | You don't care. This is your cultaholic wrestling news. |
| 0:14.0 | You don't care about what's best for business. |
| 0:17.0 | You can't even make the tough decisions, |
| 0:19.0 | so therefore I'm going to have to do it for you. |
| 0:22.0 | And there's something I've been wanting to say for a very long time. |
| 0:27.0 | W. W. W. W.'s chief brand officer and notable member of the McMahon family. |
| 0:32.8 | Stephanie McMahon is taking some time away from W. W.E. |
| 0:38.6 | She put out a tweet yesterday saying, |
| 0:40.8 | as of tomorrow, I'm taking a leave of absence from the majority of my |
| 0:44.4 | responsibilities at W. W. W. W. W. is a lifelong legacy for me and I look forward to |
| 0:51.1 | returning to the company that I love after taking this time to focus on my family. |
| 0:57.0 | A tweet that surprised a lot of people, not just everybody who consumes wrestling but people within |
| 1:04.4 | W. W. W. Insider saying internally within the company it appears no one but the most inner circle had any idea that this was coming. |
| 1:16.5 | And everyone, to a person that we've heard from, and we've heard from many, were completely |
| 1:22.0 | shocked and taken aback by the news. There are many reaching out |
| 1:25.9 | within the company and beyond the company trying to find out what led to this decision. |
| 1:32.3 | David Bixenspan has noted on Twitter that Stephanie |
| 1:36.2 | McMahon's work history is no longer listed on her LinkedIn accounts. |
| 1:40.9 | Bixenspan said recently he was doing some research when he saw it and now it's simply not there. |
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