After retiring from the WWE last July and stepping down from his duties as the CEO, Chairman and Head of Creative due to paying nearly $20 million in previously unrecorded expenses, almost $15 million of which were hush money for the sexual misconduct allegations he received from four women over the past 16 years and $5 million of which to the now-defunct foundation of former U.S. President Donald Trump, Vince McMahon forcibly made his way back to the company, returned to the Board of Directors and would ultimately be named the Executive Chairman of the Board. It was believed at the time that Vince would not be involved in the day-to-day affairs and the management structure would remain unchanged.
Stephanie McMahon then tendered her resignation as co-CEO and Nick Khan was named the sole CEO of the promotion and reports have made the rounds that Vince is already back at the office and is suggesting changes. This big news was first broken out by Ringside News, but was later confirmed by Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer.
WWE Chief Content Officer and Head of Creative Triple H held a meeting prior to SmackDown last Friday night and RAW last night that he would remain in charge of creative and that Vince McMahon could make suggestions as well as other people, but he would ultimately have the final say. Vince has reportedly not been seen backstage and it does not appear that things are totally back to where they were before he stepped down from his duties as the CEO, Chairman and Head of Creative of the WWE, but there are a number of people in the company who believe that things will go back to that at some point.
