For the first time, WWE CEO Nick Khan addressed the recent lawsuit and allegations against Vince McMahon in addition to dropping several interesting quotes about the future of WrestleMania and WWE business in general.
On The Town podcast, Khan said this year’s WrestleMania in Philadelphia is the last one that he inherited from the previous regime and process, and a deal that was in place for four years.
In talking about the timing of WWE’s Peacock deal coming up in March 2026 a month before WrestleMania, Khan said they “like the timing of that” and intimated future WrestleManias may be “a little later in April which we’re talking about now.”
Here are some other threads from the conversation:
Vince McMahon & Netflix
Khan said Netflix did not tell TKO leadership to get Vince McMahon to resign before they announced their mega-deal for both Raw domestically and the entire package of content internationally.
Asked if the allegations from the Janel Grant lawsuit would have killed off the Netflix deal, Khan said, “I don’t know about killed, but it certainly wouldn’t have helped the deal.”
Khan also addressed the allegations publicly for the first time, saying they are “obviously horrific and serious and we take them and interpret them the same way any other reasonable person or organization would interpret them. You saw the quick resignation.”
Khan reiterated what others have answered when asked about McMahon’s daily involvement in TKO/WWE business: “zero, zero, zero.”
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