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Vince McMahon’s Close Aide Drops Another Hint on WWE Departure Amid Misconduct Investigation

Published 06/24/2022, 11:00 AM EDT

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Vince McMahon is under internal investigation currently over allegations that he paid $3 million to a former employee. He stepped down from his position as the chairman after the news broke.

In his absence, Stephanie McMahon will be the interim chairwoman of WWE and will handle the operations. However, while the news broke about Vince McMahon, he was not alone who is investigated. The long-time WWE official, Johnny Ace, aka John Laurinaitis, was also seemingly involved in the whole fiasco as well. 

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WWE also suspended him from his position as the Head of Talent Relations. In the absence of Laurinaitis, the interim Head of Talent Relations will be Bruce Prichard.

The Ringside News recently shared the news regarding John Laurinaitis’ future in WWE. Their report said, “John Laurinaitis’ WWE cell phone number has been shut off. Word going around is that he’s had this working number since 2001.”

Laurinaitis has not appeared on any WWE shows since the investigation started. On the other hand, we saw Vince McMahon cutting short promos on last week’s SmackDown and this week’s RAW. 

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WWE hasn’t officially announced the news regarding John Laurinaitis’ status with the company. However, He is no longer performing the duties he once was. Nobody was able to contact Ace as he completely switched his company phone off. While they have not confirmed that Laurinaitis is no longer with WWE, they say the latest development is “not a good sign.”

Ryback took a dig at Vince McMahon and shared detail on John Laurinaitis

After the news broke, many people gave their views on the matter through their social media handles. One such individual is Ryback, who didn’t back down talking about this. He shared multiple tweets related to WWE and Vince McMahon.

In the first tweet, he said, “So glad I chose to NOT sign @wwe @VinceMcMahon sh**ty NDA on their sh**ty settlement. Can’t wait to win my RYBACK TM and bring further light to WWE’s corrupt ways and how they manipulate almost all talent on their lopsided contracts. Glad I also didn’t f**k Vince 🤮 #Hungry.”

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He talked about the Non-Disclosure Agreement of WWE and is glad that he didn’t sign any of it. Furthermore, Ryback didn’t stop here. He shared a tweet with a picture of his call records showing WWE Official John Laurinaitis’ call.

The tweet said, “Now it makes sense why @JohnLaurinaitis called with all the talent gone from @wwe Once you guys give me MY settlement terms we can talk Big Johnny. 😉 Talk soon. @VinceMcMahon.”

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Further in the tweet, Ryback claimed the call dated June 5, 2022, from Laurinaitis is related to the current investigation.

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Tushar Deogharkar

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Tushar Deogharkar is a WWE writer at EssentiallySports. Tushar has done his Master's in Tourism Management and is an ardent fan of pro wrestling. He follows WWE and AEW very closely and wants to learn how the promotions are run.
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Vibhanshu Kumar