During the latest edition of his “Wrestling With Freddie” podcast, former WWE creative team writer Freddie Prinze Jr. commented on Vince McMahon’s retirement from WWE and whether he expects the now-former WWE CEO and Chairman to eventually return.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On his expectation that Vince McMahon will come back: “Everybody comes back. John Laurinaitis has been fired before and comes back. Bruce Prichard was fired before and came back twice.”
Co-host Jeff Dye on how WWE helped rehabilitate the public image of Ric Flair: “As anti-climatic as that is, as it defeats the point of retirement, I actually totally agree with you and I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist. Ric Flair just said publicly, ‘Vince promised me, I would get back in the opening credits of WWE. Every promise he’s ever made me, he’s kept,’ and now Ric is back in the opening segment of Monday Night Raw and it’s one of those things where when that episode of ‘Dark Side Of The Ring’ came out, it was, ‘Hey man, you need to disappear for awhile. Your behavior on the plane was inappropriate then and in today’s day and age it’s just going to be smashed on so you have to go away, but when it all blows over, we’ll bring you back.’”
On how McMahon still owns almost all of the controlling stock in WWE: “He still owns almost all of the controlling stock. He still has I think 80-85% of the voting stock. Where’s he going to go? What’s he going to do?”
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