It was recently revealed that Vince McMahon is launching his own company called Alpha Entertainment which has led to speculation that he could be planning on bringing the XFL (his failed football league) back. Whatever it is, it's not WWE related and that's resulted in talk of McMahon finally deciding to step down from his role as the Chairman and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.
Well, according to Dave Meltzer, the impossible may be about to happen because he believes that McMahon may be more interested than ever in selling the company he and his father built.
"There is an argument for the McMahons to sell right now, especially when you look at the interest of the key owners. Shane and Linda are already on the outside, so the sale would only give them more money, and they could have more liquid assets. Stephanie seems to be pursuing a mainstream, charitable corporate path that could be best pursued within WWE or a foundation using her own money. Only Triple H clearly has his future set on running a wrestling company. The odds are that if somebody buys WWE and Vince gets out, the odds are really strong that Triple H, Vince’s protege, would be the guy put in charge, because they won’t think of anybody else."
Meltzer went on to speculate that Disney is one of many possibilities for who could buy WWE but added that a massive amount of money would need to be offered for him to seriously consider it.
"Vince creating his personal property for business projects is the type of thing somebody does before they sell their main company. I don’t know. For a long time, people have talked about Vince selling the company. I always thought Vince wouldn’t want to sell the wrestling company because it’s like his life. He may not, but at the same time but when that UFC sale went for $4 billion, all of a sudden the game changed. If they could get anything close to $4 billion, and they couldn’t, but I think Vince would be out in a heartbeat because the number is so big.
"So now [Vince is] starting his own company, and if he sells WWE he would have way more money for the new company. The thing is, does Vince want to sell wrestling to fund football stuff or whatever? I know he wants to be something other than a wrestling promoter, but I don’t know if he actually wants to be not [in] wrestling. So it’s all interesting to me."
Honestly, there's probably only a very slim chance that will actually happen but it is interesting to wonder what a WWE without the McMahons would look like. Triple H being in charge would make sense but if an outside company were to put new leadership in place, it's easy to imagine things falling apart and the company no longer resembling the WWE we all know and (mostly) love.