Folks, brace yourselves for the kind of bombshell that shakes the wrestling world to its core. Vince McMahon, the man who turned WWE into a global phenomenon, is now persona non grata at WWE headquarters. That’s right, according to former longtime employee Tom Carlucci, Vince can’t even set foot in the building he once ruled.
Here’s the scoop: Vince resigned as Executive Chairman of TKO in January after a sex trafficking lawsuit was filed against him. Since then, he’s been progressively selling off his WWE stock, ensuring he’s as far removed from the company as possible. Carlucci, who spilled the tea on “The Insiders” with Conrad Thompson, revealed that McMahon is barred from WWE HQ.
“He can’t even walk in the building. That’s crazy that you drive by that building, you got the big championship belt, he always wanted those from day one,” Carlucci remarked, likely while clutching a steel chair for dramatic effect. Carlucci, who started with WWE in 1988 and wore more hats than a Royal Rumble audience, added, “We were in two different buildings… 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.”
But wait, there’s more! The ban extends to the gym that Vince himself helped design. Yes, you heard that right. McMahon can’t even pump iron in the place he once sculpted. “He can’t even go in that gym anymore. He can’t step foot anywhere. Every meeting that goes on over there, everybody asks, ‘Is Vince coming?’ … ‘You’ll never see Vince here again,’ from the TKO people.”
Let’s rewind: Vince initially resigned from WWE in 2022 when it emerged he’d misappropriated company funds to pay NDAs. But like a wrestling match twist, he returned to the board in January 2023, aiming to find a buyer for WWE. Fast forward to September, WWE merged with UFC to become TKO Group Holdings, with Vince as the Executive Chairman. However, McMahon resigned again following Janel Grant’s lawsuit, now paused pending further investigation by the Department of Justice.