Vince McMahon steps down as WWE CEO & Chairman during investigation | POST News 6/17
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
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John Pollock & Wai Ting are joined by Nate Milton & Brian Mann to discuss Vince McMahon stepping down as WWE CEO & Chairman during the WWE Board of Directors’ investigation into alleged misconduct.
- Vince McMahon voluntarily steps down as CEO & Chairman of WWE while investigation ongoing
- Stephanie McMahon steps in as interim CEO & Chairwoman
- Vince McMahon to appear on Friday Night SmackDown tonight
- 20 Years of IMPACT Wrestling
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to your post daily news show for Friday, June the 17th. |
| 0:13.3 | I am John Pollock alongside the returning, Mr. Waiting. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, way. |
| 0:18.1 | Hello, John. |
| 0:19.1 | I am back in, you know, a bit of a slow news day, I think, final. |
| 0:23.5 | Yes. |
| 0:24.5 | Yes. |
| 0:25.5 | I've counted down all week to what we were going to do our TNA round table show, but that |
| 0:31.4 | has blown up. |
| 0:32.4 | We are going to be going into the largest news that I would say has come down in years |
| 0:41.0 | regarding WWE and we have been covering it this week and that continued on Friday morning |
| 0:47.4 | with a pair of announcements from the WWE. |
| 0:50.8 | And I'm just going to go over the press release now and then we are going to welcome in our |
| 0:54.0 | guest because the round table is still assembled. |
| 0:56.2 | So we are going forward with the round table, but Friday morning, WWE and the board of directors |
| 1:02.0 | announced that a special committee of the board is conducting an investigation into alleged |
| 1:06.7 | misconduct by its chairman and CEO Vincent McMahon and John Laurenitis head of talent relations |
| 1:11.8 | and that effective immediately McMahon has voluntarily stepped back from his responsibilities |
| 1:16.0 | as CEO and chairman of the board until the conclusion of the investigation. |
| 1:20.0 | McMahon will retain his role and responsibilities related to WWE's creative content during |
| 1:24.8 | this period and remains committed to cooperating with the review underway. |
| 1:29.2 | The special committee has appointed Stephanie McMahon to serve as interim CEO and interim |
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