Below are a couple of top WWE news stories of the day.
• In January, Vince McMahon resigned from all his roles within TKO, including as executive chairman and member of the TKO Board of Directors. His departure followed a lawsuit with serious allegations from former WWE employee Janel Grant, accusing McMahon and John Laurinaitis of $ex trafficking and sharing explicit photos and videos without consent.
Grant’s attorney, Ann Callis, revealed that her client agreed to pause the lawsuit pending a non-public investigation by the US Attorney’s Office. The case will resume in December.
At the Bash In Berlin post show, WWE Champion Cody Rhodes was asked about the WWE locker room being quiet about the McMahon situation. Rhodes noted that the locker room is focused on their current work rather than McMahon’s past actions.
The Wrestling Observer reported the following regarding the WWE locker room’s reaction to the Vince McMahon allegations:
“I know some are repulsed. I know some are not, so you can’t answer for the locker room in general. Some, like CM Punk, Becky Lynch and Ronda Rousey have given their own personal answers but most aren’t going to say anything because you just don’t know how management will take it.”
McMahon, Laurinaitis, and WWE are pushing to have the lawsuit dismissed and settled through arbitration, with a judge yet to rule on the matter.
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• WWE is set to bring back Saturday Night’s Main Event. The show originally aired from 1985 to 1991 on NBC, then briefly moved to FOX in 1992 before disappearing. It returned in March 2006 on NBCU, running until August 2008. WWE also used the name for select house shows in recent years.
WrestleVotes first reported that WWE will announce its first NBC primetime special since 2008, with speculation pointing to a Saturday night in December.
In an update, the Wrestling Observer reported the following:
“WWE told us that the return of Saturday Night’s Main Event will be announced very soon, so that would indicate [that the WrestleVotes report] is accurate.”
This means bad news for AEW, as they air their Collision show on Saturday nights, which already faces viewership issues. If WWE’s Saturday Night’s Main Event goes head-to-head with AEW Collision, expect Collision’s viewership to suffer even more.
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