If There Was No Shane or Steph and Vince and Linda died, who would the WWE go to?

[SickJames]

Who do you think it would go to after Vince and Linda died and they had no kids?

Would Vince give it to one person while running an angle on screen where a wrestler is Vince's long lost son, in storyline, but real life it'd be someone he trusts. Who could that be?

What wrestler would he trust most? Or group of wrestlers?

Would The Kliq run it? Also keep in mind HHH's run would be kind of different, not saying so different, but obviously different without Steph being in existence certain things never happened.




Let's say Vince died and Linda didnt and they had a divorce and she got WWE and didnt really want it anymore? Maybe she does and decides to kill it? Maybe she sells it to Eric Bischoff or Paul Heyman?

What would be of the WWE?


Would Trump buy it or some other friend of Vince?


Would Vince just end it because if a McMahon cant run it it just shouldnt go on under anyone else in his mind?


What do you think would happen?


I guess this could also be what if HHH, Steph and Shane suddenly died and Linda and Vince soon after but thats too much coincidental death without a c-o-n spiracy.

 

[rge2010]

Vince would have a will and all his posessions would go to whoever he wanted it to go to. Failing that, the State would clean up and sell it on.

I'm pretty sure Vince would habve an assistant of some sort to keep his legacy going. Myabe someone like Kevin Dunn.

 

[Ethelion]

If There Was No Shane or Steph and Vince and Linda died, who would the WWE go to?

I was gonna say Triple H, but since your condition includes Steph not being born, the WWE wouldn't have gone to him. Don't get me wrong though, I like Hunter and I do believe that he started his own success on his own accord. This leaves the only other man that they believe in: Shawn Michaels. After HBK's breakthrough performance during his defection from Marty Jannetty, he proved that he was main-event material. Moreover, he was, and always is, loyal to Vince AND the WWE - no WCW, no ECW, no nothing. Therefore, it's clearly a no-brainer that they would go to Shawn if Vince died (God forbid).

 

[Rick Rudes Mustache]

Actually this wouldn't matter at all. The WWE is a publicly traded company. Thus upon the CEO's death the acting board of directors & highest stock dived-en holders would vote via proxy would then "elect" a new CEO. The brand would stay the same but you would have a new acting CEO. In most cases the current CFO or COO is elevated to CEO in the interim while a new CEO is found. Assuming in your hypothetical HHH was still the COO he would be vetted and elected CEO. IF HHH was not in the picture and the acting COO or CFO was not selected a 3rd party would be then given the reigns.

 

[Mustang Sally]

As far as the financial aspects go, the stockholders get WWE if Vince, Shane, Stephanie and Senator McMahon buy the farm. The McMahons are the majority stockholders and the decisions regarding inheritance are certainly already in place; even though no one is expecting Shane and Stephanie to die anytime soon, the value of WWE stock represents too much money to leave to chance. Vince and Linda's grandchildren would become independently wealthy in a hurry, with trusted people in charge of managing their fortune in Greenwich, Connecticut. Of course, whom would they trust to manage these affairs? Aurora, Murphy and Vaughn Levesque would own the stock but are not yet competent to run their financial affairs. As majority stockholders, whomever speaks for them would have incredible power. At the stockholders meeting in which the future of WWE is addressed, who would stand up and represent the girls.....and by extension, all the stockholders?

As to the continuation of WWE as an entity? That's a good question. Vince McMahon was able to pick up failed wrestling companies (ex:WCW) for a song but it's not as if WWE would be subject to a liquidation sale; it's a thriving business concern and the stockholders would want to keep it going. The company behind TNA might want to take over in order to eliminate them as competition, but it would take a hell of a lot of money to acquire and I wonder if that company has the belly for a further investment in a pro wrestling organization.

Probably, the stockholders of WWE would hire someone to run the sports entertainment company....not one person, but a team, maybe a whole company. It would be a huge risk as to whether the company can successfully run without Vince McMahon, for sure. It would also be fascinating to see in which direction they'd take it.

Scary conjecture: Eric Bischoff working in the Stamford CT offices of World Wrestling Entertainment as CEO.......and re-naming the company World Championship Wrestling.

 

[SickJames]

I like the answers I'm recieving. Happy no bash comments about not wanting to think about people dying. I dont want it either, strictly hypothetical.

But since someone mentioned it being publicly traded, I'd like to also hear their thoughts and yours on what if it wasnt publicly traded, like say this happened... (and do it all or any of the ways mentioned in the OP, this is just another alternative) in 1998 right before that. but again I'd like answers to all the alternate ways I give in the OP as well, dont have to do them all, but I would like a mix of answers on all.

 

[Dmbfantomas]

Undertaker should run it, because he's the best wrestler ever!

Or, ya know, it'll be a bunch of boring old white guys in suites that you've never heard of before.

Vince would probably set it up for cats like Taker, Shawn, Bret, etc to run the wrestling side once he passed.

 

[Jonyboyuk2]

Who would it go to? Well if there was no Shane or Stephanie then, presumably vince would leave it in his will to someone IF the WWE was a privately owned business.

Now - if the WWE was floated on the stock markets as it currently is, then the owners of the current shares would remain owning what they do, and it would be down to Vince McMahon to nominate where his shares would go in his will or there would be a law enacted under the probate to transfer shares law.

Either way - the WWE would not be the same. We just can only hope Hunter stays with Stephanie as he is the only savior for the future of the WWE.

 

[DaNewGuy]

There's a story that when Vince jr. bought the company from his father there were conditions he had to meet. If he didn't meet those conditions then the company would revert to a group Vince sr. trusted - guys like Gorilla Monsoon.

I'd imagine that Vince jr. would have a similar system in place in the absence of children to inherit the empire. It'd be a group he trusted - guys like Undertaker, HHH, maybe Patterson and Briscoe (age permitting).

There was also supposed to be a plan for someone to come in and run the company if the steroid trial sent Vince to jail (who it was differs by story - Bill Watts, Cornette). He might seek to find a successor like that, but there not a huge amount of experienced bookers with a proven track record around. Heyman's probably precluded by his lack of financial sense, Bischoff, perhaps, by personal animosity, Cornette likewise.

As far as the wrestling side of the business goes anyway. The corporate side is probably pretty well founded in the existing office power structure of the company.

 

[SD619]

As Sally stated, WWE is a privately-owned company. So. the decisions would lie in the hand of the shareholders and the board of directors. If it was a private company, the company would most likely go to a group of Vince's trusted guys probably headed by JR (despite ribbing him many times, I guess Vince recognizes JR's knowledge of the business). This group would run the company while most likely looking for some financial banking (or potential buyers). I think that the other members of the transient authority would include a few wrestlers like Undertaker, Dusty Rhodes, Austin(?) etc.

 

[xavyer]

I think that if there was no Shane or Stephany, and Vince and Linda pass away, i think that Vince would have a select group of superstars from the past and present he would leave it up to, for example, as a consultant or advisor i see Jim Ross, he knows the business like no one else, and even if there was no Steph, i think Triple H would be involved in some capacity, because the guy is really smart, and he truly loves the business, and Vince knows that, i think he would still become the COO, so with him i think that it would be basicly the same, and also i see in that group guys like Shawn Michaels and John Cena in some important areas as well, and i think also the King, Michael Cole and/or Regal would be involved somehow........

 

[Rayne]

It's painful watching professional wrestling fans talk legal.

It would go to whomever Vince and Linda willed their individual shares to. This could be one person, a collection of people, a charity who would benefit from the sale of the stock, you name it. But typically, majority shareholders with a long-term, vested interest in their company tend to keep enough shares in one block after their death so that a specific person can maintain control of the company 'in their image'. Which is always a tough call- once you're dead, it's awfully difficult to enforce what you want done.

As far as who? People assume it must be another professional wrestler- after all, that's who they see Vince and Linda with the most. *facepalm* Because it's on television. However, there is a whole litany of people behind the scenes in the WWE that you've never heard of, because what they do has nothing to do with acting; they are the wheels that help run the business of the WWE. (I wonder if Brad is still Vince's business manager.) What would be to stop Vince from gifting an extraordinary administrator, and leaving it to them to appoint someone to operate the stage aspects of the WWE?

The most likely scenario would be small gifts of stock to WWE employees, along with some performers who have been with the company on a near permanent basis. (Working a couple of years for a company then leaving typically doesn't entitle you to a piece of it in the owner's will.) Either one person would receive a controlling interest, or controlling interest would be divided amongst a small group of investors. The LEAST likely scenario would be an even distribution amongst family members, unless Vince wanted to guarantee that his descendants despised each other and fought over the company until they ran it into the ground, which seems to happen with many second/third generation family businesses.

 

[wooooo]

Pretty impossible question to answer, he wouldn't just leave it to some trusted employee like Shawn Michaels or Undertaker because what do they know about running an entire company?

HHH is a special circumstance and he's being brought through the ranks over several years and even then I doubt he'll end up in charge.

It's hard to talk about this without ending up sounding like an idiot unless you've got a degree in business management or something and know how running a company works, also he has a ton of people off screen that most people don't even know about.

 

[Milkyway!]

I read this and I simply asked myself. "What the fuck is this point in this thread?" There is a Shane McMahon, and there is a Stephany McMahon. There's also little Stephanies/Triple H's running around too.

I'm all for debating the hypothetical, but this is simply asinine. There's no way around it.

You think it would go to a wrestler, and not a realistic businessman? Not one of the other CEO's? Not to the board of directors? Absurd.

Once again, what the fuck is the point in this thread?

 

[VinnieSunshine]

I think the company would still go to Tiple H.

He worked hard to suck up and be Vince's right hand. Him and Shawn have been right there the entire time with Vince.

It wouldn't surprise me if Triple H was already being placed in Vince's will when him an Steph started their relationship and Shane stepped away.

 

[wrestlingexpress2000]

I'm assuming Vince has nephews, nieces, etc. One of them would probably be bound to get involved with the business and perhaps inherit it? It's impossible to predict something like this.

 

[shalliin]

I read this and I simply asked myself. "What the fuck is this point in this thread?" There is a Shane McMahon, and there is a Stephany McMahon. There's also little Stephanies/Triple H's running around too.

I'm all for debating the hypothetical, but this is simply asinine. There's no way around it.

You think it would go to a wrestler, and not a realistic businessman? Not one of the other CEO's? Not to the board of directors? Absurd.

Once again, what the fuck is the point in this thread?

the only asinine thing is that you even bothered to post a reply if you don't understand the point of the thread. This is an exersize of the mind posing a question about possibilities outside of reality.

now, for my thoughts: if there was no shane or steph, then Im sure that vince/linda would have made legal arrangements for the company to pass to a group including the board and made their wishes known for the top role in the company, but any action of that nature would have to be agreed to by the board itself, and ratified by the stockholders as happens even with shane and steph/hhh being around. once the inevitable happens, and vince and linda are gone, it is most likely hhh/steph that will have those top position as relates to the wrestling side of things, but WWE is more then a wrestling company and there would be different people in charge of the differenct aspects asthere are now, only with hhh/steph with the final responsibility, unless shane returns.

 

[enviousdominous]

I don't see how Vince can have any involvement in the decision unless he comes back as a zombie or poltergeist.

If there was any justice on this world, Paul Heyman would be running the show and it would be awesome.

Since there's no justice in this world, obviously HHH would be the moron who happily steps over everyone else to force his low-brow sense of humor on us as punishment for wanting wrestling in a show that's all about how pretty he thinks he is.




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[theBec2101]

I thought Vince said he couldn’t die.

Maybe the board would take over and control it for awhile till they voted for it. Unless it was already established in a will or something even still the board members would have to agree aswell for the most part.

I heard people leaving huge mansions and millions and millions of dollars to their pets so maybe their dog or cat or something.

 

[#MrScissorsKick]

Can't say I disagree with what most of you guys have already said. If Vince, Linda, Shane and Stephanie all just all of a sudden lose control of the WWE I would really be surprised to see who would take over control of the WWE. My first guess would be triple H, since he is the COO of the WWE. Another few names I'd throw out there would be Paul Heyman, he's great with the mic, so that's a plus that he could work the crowd. I'd also consider Mick Foley, he has been in position of leadership roles previously. I don't think any other names would be responsible to take over controls without the lack of stability.