Kurt Angle comments on Vince McMahon.
Over the past two years, WWE has continued to rapidly grow as a company, despite the fact that Vince McMahon has been in and out of the company. For the longest time, some fans believed that the company wouldn't be able to succeed with McMahon at the helm. Just this past quarter, WWE recorded a profit of $57.7 million, up from the $22 million that the company recorded in Q3 2023.
On the other hand, Kurt Angle is not surprised that WWE has continued to succeed without McMahon, as there were plenty of guys underneath him that know the business in and out.
“You know what, I think he’s been so much of a part of it that it really doesn’t matter now because the guys that were underneath him know the business in and out the way Vince did. I will tell you that nobody will ever be Vince McMahon and nobody’s ever gonna be Vince McMahon. Triple H, he knows the business pretty good. Paul Heyman, he knows the business pretty damn good. We have a lot of good guys that we can turn to and depend on for the business to continue to grow. Vince McMahon may be done, but the business isn’t done. It’s gonna continue to triumph, it’s gonna continue to get bigger. It’s gonna go in cycles, it’s gonna get really popular and then it’s gonna be struggling again, then it will be very popular again and struggle again. The business will always be here because you have incredible individuals like Triple H and Paul Heyman.”
Later on in the interview, Angle said that WWE probably wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for McMahon. Angle also noted that that he tries to shy away from talking about McMahon anymore due to his allegations.
“Nothing surprises me when it comes to Vince McMahon. This guy, despite everything going on in the world with Vince today, what he was able to do, to take this family owned company that was in the northeast region and make it a world phenomenon is something short of incredible. He was able to take a business that was a family business and make it into an empire, a multi billion dollar empire. I’m sorry, but he’s the guy that deserves most of the credit for that. If it wasn’t for Vince, there probably wouldn’t be WWE today, so you gotta give credit where credit is due. I don’t talk about Vince much anymore because most of it it usually negative and I don’t like to talk about that negative stuff, but he did incredibly well for the business.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Angle talked about filming a CBS/NFL commercial with Kyle Brandt. Check out his full comments on the matter by clicking here.
Janel Grant, a former WWE employee, filed a lawsuit in January against Vince McMahon, WWE, and John Laurinaitis. The lawsuit accuses McMahon of sexual assault and sex trafficking. On May 30, Grant agreed to pause the lawsuit for six months while the federal investigation continued against McMahon, who resigned from TKO/WWE following the lawsuit being filed.
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