Vince McMahon retired from WWE in 2022 amid reports of sexual misconduct. However, it didn't last and he remained hands-on in terms of creative and ultimately helped facilitate the company's sale to UFC owner Endeavor.
That landed him the role of "WWE Executive Chairman," but a lawsuit filed by Janel Grant full of horrifying sexual abuse claims and the fact he no longer owned the company finally saw McMahon pushed out of WWE earlier this year.
Since then, a combination of him no longer exerting control over every facet of the business and Triple H being in charge of creative has seen the quality of WWE's product increase significantly.
Talking to Conrad Thompson on The Insiders podcast, McMahon's longtime friend and former WWE employee, Tom Carlucci, revealed that the 78-year-old is banned from the new WWE Headquarters he helped create...and his personal gym.
"I will never ever badmouth [Vince]. Now, what's going on with Vince now, it's a totally different story. There's three sides to every story in my book. So, stuff is gonna come out and you'll see it. I don't know anything about it but it is what it is as we all know."
"He can't even walk in the building...that's crazy that you drive by that building [and] you got that big championship belt. He always wanted us from day one...because we were in two different buildings. We had the corporate off exit 9 and then we were right down the street from the corporate office. Our big production studio."
"He always wanted us under one roof. That was his dream to have us under one roof. The dream came and he's not even a part of it anymore."
"The gym was created for Vince. He designed the gym with his trainer Mike, who I know really well. He can't even go in that gym anymore. He can't step foot anywhere. Every meeting that goes on over there - you'll never see Vince here again, from the TKO people. It is crazy when you think about it that he's the legacy."
McMahon has maintained his innocence from the start but the Justice Department recently put Grant's lawsuit on hold to begin a criminal investigation into his alleged misconduct.
It's unclear what will become of that but the odds of McMahon ever returning to WWE are somewhere between slim and none at this stage.
Stay tuned for updates as we have them.