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Vince McMahon had been the owner of WWE for four decades before finally selling the promotion in 2022. WWE started back in 1952 as the Capitol Wrestling Corporation by Jess McMahon, who was the grandfather of McMahon. Vincent J. McMahon later became the owner of the promotion, which later formed the World Wide Wrestling Federation, WWWF, which later became WWE.
In the early 80s, the promotion succeeded to Vincent J. McMahon's son, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, who is famous by the name Vince McMahon. He changed the promotion drastically after becoming the owner, and he was the reason behind the global success of the promotion, which became the biggest wrestling promotion in the world.
Vince McMahon to buy back WWE?
When Vince came into charge of the promotion, it was just another professional wrestling promotion, but the credit goes to hearing that it became the biggest promotion in the world. In 2022, he was forced to sell the promotion to TKO, and rumour has it that he is pushing to buy back WWE.
Vince McMahon sold WWE to the TKO group in 2022
WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam recently discussed Vince McMahon potentially buying back WWE. The former WWE champion things it can be an exciting prospect if Vince returns to the promotion again. Speaking on his “1 Of A Kind” podcast, he said the following about the ongoing rumours that Vince is potentially trying to buy back WWE. He said;
McMahon had been the owner of WWE for over 4 decades
“I don’t know as far as that goes. That would be amazing if he were able to reclaim his ownership. I heard or read somewhere that he still has a majority of shares of [TKO]? I don’t even know. Anyway, I think you know that we pretty much consider him moving on past the WWE now, but I don’t know.” said the former WWE Champion and WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam.
When the TKO group started their journey as the owner of WWE, the fans were quite happy as they thought everything was going in the right direction. But with the business model of the promotion, the frustration is growing among fans, and a large number of answers have already started to say that Vince McMahon had been a better owner. But chances are very fat that he would ever get to buy back WWE.
