Vince McMahon Reportedly Needed “Filter” Over Insensitive Language During Creative Meetings

As noted before, former WWE CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon recently officially retired from the company. Prior to his announcement, McMahon had been under investigation by WWE’s Board of Directors over allegations of sexual misconduct and hush money settlement payments towards several former female employees and talent.

Fightful Select reported that their sources within WWE’s Creative stated that McMahon’s ideas and conversations during creative meetings needed “filter” and “heavy editing” due to several serious issues.

Those spoken to stated that many of the creative writer’s assistants often had to “filter” McMahon when taking notes from him during meetings due to him having a habit of saying things that ranged from stuff that would appear insensitive or offensive to simple kayfabe. It was reported that the written minutes of these meetings also had to be “heavily edited” as a result of McMahon’s comments made during them.

In regards to insensitive comments made during creative meetings, it was reported that McMahon had the habit of constantly calling people the wrong name or used terms that were not socially acceptable that even he himself would have never allowed to be uttered on WWE programming.

One former production employee spoken to stated that “if a live feed of Vince McMahon on a headset any given night ever made it out, that it would provide a picture of that production experience, especially for the announcers. There were plenty of times he was in a good mood, but he would blow up at the most ridiculous things and act like they ruined an angle that was far past its expiration date anyway.

One person spoken to within or close to WWE’s creative team stated that the one thing they currently expect to change the most with Paul “Triple H” Levesque now in charge of creative is “recall of what we have and haven’t done repeatedly. There were so many things that Vince insisted on doing that I’m pretty sure he didn’t remember doing over and over again, even when people would tell him.”