Vince McMahon is facing more legal trouble. This time, it’s related to the WWE shareholder lawsuit connected to the merger with UFC’s parent company, Endeavor.
According to court documents from May 2025, the people who filed the lawsuit want the Delaware Court of Chancery to make McMahon hand over certain documents. They are asking for non-private papers from January 2022 to March 2024. The accusation is that McMahon is not cooperating.
The lawsuit started in November 2023. The Laborers’ District Council and Contractors’ Pension Fund of Ohio believe McMahon planned the WWE-Endeavor merger to keep his power. They say he ignored better offers that could have benefited shareholders. The deal, which created TKO in 2023, allowed McMahon to stay on as Executive Chairman until he quit in January 2024 after Janel Grant’s s*x trafficking lawsuit.
The court has given McMahon until May 14 to respond and if he doesn’t object, the court might order him to provide the documents.
Several WWE executives, like Nick Khan and Triple H, have already received subpoenas. The lawsuit also criticizes the Board’s earlier investigation into McMahon’s alleged bad behavior, calling it fake and saying they cared more about McMahon than the shareholders.
One issue could be attorney-client privilege. However, courts haven’t always agreed with McMahon on this. A federal court recently decided that some talks between McMahon and his longtime lawyer Jerry McDevitt were not protected because there was likely evidence of fraud.
Even though this shareholder lawsuit is separate from Grant’s civil case, they involve similar timelines and issues. What is discovered in this case could potentially help her federal case in Connecticut.
If the shareholders win this lawsuit, people who owned stock during the time in question could get money. Right now, McMahon has several legal challenges, and this one could become more complicated.
