Vince McMahon recently became an "official" WWE employee again after signing a new two-year contract as Executive Chairman as part of the massive Endeavour deal.
Vince admitted that he'd be contributing from a creative standpoint at the "highest level" and not "in the weeds," but WWE CEO Nick Khan has now claimed that Triple H will have the last word when it comes to the various angles, gimmicks and storylines.
Here's what Khan had to say during a recent interview with LightShed Live.
"On Monday [April 3], when this deal was officially announced, Vince sent out a company-wide email to our thousand or so employees, including myself, and in the email he laid out the structure of the NewCo. Specifically, he articulated that Paul Levesque remains the sole Chief Creative Officer. Sole. How does that work? Does that mean that technically because I'm in charge of the business side of the business that I don't seek input from other people. I wouldn't seek input from Vince McMahon, who created this entire empire? That would be a mistake on my behalf. Paul and Vince, a family relationship, a relationship that spans back to the mid-90s. Paul is in charge of creative. If he wants input from Vince or Vince has ideas that he and Paul are going to communicate, that's always going to be the case."
"We're lucky to have Vince," he continued. "We're lucky to have Paul in control of creative. We're lucky that the set up that Vince created, that the company could continue to exist, even when Vince stepped out for that five month period, the company kept flowing. We think the best organizations are set up that way and that's the way Vince set up WWE."
So, McMahon still has "input," which apparently extends to making major changes right before and even during last week's episode of Raw!
We're not sure everyone's going to buy what Khan is selling here, but we'll just have to wait and see how things play out in the build-up to the recently re-branded WRESTLEMANIA Backlash and Night of Champions (formerly known as King and Queen of the Ring).