This is one of the biggest Stories in sports and entertainment today and to say it by being a wild start to 2023 will be the understatement of the year. WWE has never seen a more turbulent time than this behind the scenes and no one could have predicted that this would be happening so soon. The drama regarding the sale of WWE can be made into a Netflix series and it would be the most watched TV show ever. It has everything from drama to blackmail to fake news. All WWE fans are following this story like a hawk and their moods change from sad to angry to happy.
And nobody knows where this story will go but rest assured that it will be covered here on a regular basis and WWE selling has to ins of the most mind boggling stories of the past decade. The chronology of the events till now have been wild so let’s look at them.
Vince McMahon returns to WWE to facilitate a sale
At the start of this year it was announced that Vince McMahon returned to WWE only to facilitate a sale and media rights deals for WWE. This was unimaginable a few years back as Vince McMahon was adamant that WWE would never be sold and look how times change. He would not be able to get creative control as long as WWE stays public and therefore Vince McMahon wants to sell WWE.
The news of WWE being sold to Saudi Arabia comes out
Then the news came out a few days ago with the headlines starting from “Confirmed that WWE is selling to Saudi Arabia “ or “WWE Sold”. And thus came from random Twitter accounts and Reddit and every wrestling fan went to Twitter to express their anger and disappointment. No major news outlet reported it and still it ran for a day and it showed that Wrestling Journalism has gone to the ground.
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News came out WWE has not been sold to anyone now
The next day after all the Saudi Arabia drama and seeing all the Anti Muslim hate by the part of West fans showed their racist behavior. Then credible journalists reported that all those Saudi Arabia news was fake and that WWE has not been sold to anyone and they are looking at all possible options. And then the trusted wrestling reporters said that this is the reason they do not post random news on Twitter before confirming they are true or not.
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WWE held talks with Disney and Tony Khan is interested in buying WWE
First let’s talk about the part that Tony and his father Shahid Khan are interested in buying WWE and this is reported by CNBC and this is true but Vince McMahon will not even entertain this idea because this will make WWE the number 2 and he will never want that so Tony Khan buying WWE is out of the question. Then let’s talk about the more credible potential buyer that is Disney. Majority of WWE fans are in favor of Disney being the one to buy WWE because it would give WWE so much more exposure and WWE could come to Disney Plus and they would give them a lot more viewers. Nick Khan met with Bob Iger who is the CEO of Disney and WWE would be much bigger under Disney and the potential crossovers with Marvel or Star Wars will also be possible.
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