Longtime WWE chairman and CEO, Vince McMahon, has stepped down from his role just a month before his 77th birthday. The elder McMahon's daughter, Stephanie McMahon, and current WWE president, Nick Khan, will take over the role as co-CEOs. Stephanie will also serve as the chairwoman of the WWE in McMahon's retirement.
While Vince McMahon did not build WWE from the ground up, he is responsible for turning it into a global phenomenon since taking over in 1982. Over the years, the WWE has struck multiple billion-dollar TV deals and become a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange.
As part of these changes, Vince McMahon's son-in-law, WWE legend Triple H, will reportedly take over creative duties just after becoming the company's new head of talent relations.
Controversial circumstances aside, fans are already excited to see what Paul Levesque will come up with now that he's the creative head of the WWE. The 14-time world champion is a legend inside and outside the ring. The Game, as he is sometimes referred to, is widely credited for the black-and-gold era of NXT before the NXT 2.0 rebrand last year.
Despite a long and storied career as a wrestler, Triple H has taken on a more executive role in recent years. He is effectively retired as a competitor after suffering a "cardiac event", which also affected his ability to perform executive duties.