Subscriber exclusive: Dave Meltzer on Vince McMahon's potential future in wrestling

The end of any WWE connection to Vince McMahon, the most powerful and influential figure in the history of pro wrestling, is now imminent.

McMahon has been completely out of power since resigning under pressure as TKO executive chairman just prior to this past January’s WWE Royal Rumble after the Janel Grant lawsuit and the threat of sponsor pullouts. But his last connection to the business, being the largest individual shareholder in TKO, is about to become a thing of the past as he registered to sell his remaining 8,021,405 shares in TKO on Friday.

Unrelated, WWE president Nick Khan also registered to sell 234,424 shares. Based on current value, the remaining shares McMahon is looking to sell would be worth about $781 million while the shares Khan is looking to sell are worth about $23 million.

While my belief is that McMahon is done in wrestling, given he’s 78 years old, from a legal standpoint he does have a one-year non-compete.end in late January 2025. He can, at that point, start up a new promotion.

Since the word got out, I’ve had discussions and other communications with some of the most prominent people in wrestling regarding the possibility that he gets back into wrestling, something that has been his life since starting to work for his father as a promoter in the late 1960s.

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