Earlier this year, former WWE CEO and Chairman Vince McMahon was hit with a lawsuit which laid some truly horrible sexual misconduct allegations at his feet.
While McMahon remains innocent until proven guilty, text messages painted a terrible picture of the man who essentially created WWE and it's clear he's unlikely to ever be part of the company again (WWE has already started editing him out of its history).
Now, WWE President Nick Khan - who is believed to have been among those who blocked McMahon's return to WWE before his second retirement - has weighed in on allegations he describes as "horrific and serious."
"I don’t know about 'kill' but [the allegations] certainly wouldn’t have helped the deal," Khan said of whether WWE's 10-year deal with Netflix was ever at risk. "So those allegations are obviously horrific and serious and we take them and interpret them the same way I think every other reasonable person or organization would take them and you saw the quick resignation."
He'd add that Netflix didn't tell WWE McMahon had to resign in "any way, shape or form" and confirmed the disgraced Chairman now has "zero" involvement with the company.
"As a stockholder as I’m a stockholder," Khan said of the ties Vince does have. "Zero, zero, zero. By the way, he chose to resign. So, there was no litigation. As you said, there was no threat in litigation."
Elsewhere in the interview, he was asked about what led to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson returning to WWE as a member of the TKO board and said having his input on the company was "something we were desirous of."
Admitting The Rock was initially hesitant about coming back to WWE, Khan said it ultimately boiled down to the Final Boss "[needing] to figure out why." This year, the time was right but it sounds like, shortly after WrestleMania, Johnson will be leaving to shoot his new A24 movie and then Disney's live-action Moana.
This lines up with recent reports about his potentially being absent between the Show of Shows and SummerSlam in August.
You can listen to the full interview with Nick Khan in the player below.