BIG news! Vince McMahon could make surprising return in WWE

Vince McMahon could make a surprising comeback to WWE. Even after leaving the sports entertainment giant in 2024, McMahon's shadow has continued to lurk over the promotion.

Apart from the ongoing Janel Grant lawsuit, McMahon has news over the sale of WWE to Endeavor. This led to a shareholders lawsuit alleging that the former CEO was not transparent in his company's sale to Endeavor. Now, it looks like his exit from WWE may not be as final as everyone believed.

Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer mentioned that when Vince retired from WWE for the first time in 2023, he had not intention of it ending. He said that it was a decision to allow McMahon to step away from public attention before making a return.

"On the day Vince McMahon resigned, said he was leaving, said he was retired, said he was done — he had zero intention of that being the end. None. This was a playbook that someone — whether it was Ari Emanuel, Vince McMahon, or someone else — gave to him. This is how it’s going to go down. And it went down exactly like that," he noted.

Meltzer said WWE's sale to Endeavor was reported as pre-wired, with the shareholder lawsuit now claiming there was no transparency from his position in 2024 came after the Janel Grant lawsuit, and TKO might be waiting for the case to fade away and bring him back.

"The lawsuit was so descriptively horrible, it scared off sponsors and made Endeavor say, ‘you’ve got to go.’ They’re probably waiting for this lawsuit to go away… and then maybe they bring him back. That was the playbook,” he added. [H/T: Ringside News]

Was Vince McMahon involved with WWE's creative well into 2023?

The court filings in the shareholder lawsuit disclosed that Vince McMahon had a say in WWE's creative plans going into WrestleMania 39. This is opposite to the earlier belief that McMahon was not involved in creative decisions after he returned in 2023.

In the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer further disclosed this situation. He noted that while Triple H was in charge of the creative, Vince still had the final call for most of 2023.

The situation remained the same until Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel stepped in to remove Vince from the creative.