A lack of development led to Michael Mansury parting ways with WWE and later jumping to All Elite Wrestling.
Mansury joined WWE in 2009 and became the Vice President of Global Television Production, but left in March 2020.
Earlier this month, it was reported that Mansury has joined AEW as Senior Vice President & Co-Executive Producer, a signing that is being seen as a huge deal.
On The Sessions podcast, Mansury explained his decision to leave WWE. He said,
“I got to a certain point in my career there where I wasn’t really being developed any further. My schedule was pretty wild, those last six months before I left. Do Raw on Mondays, Tuesday I would fly from anywhere to LA to do Backstage, take a red eye to Orlando on Tuesday nights, sleep on the plane, go do NXT, which at that point had gone live on USA, work office hours on Thursday, fly back to New York with Triple H on Wednesday night, Thursday is office hours and prepping for everything on Friday with SmackDown, Saturday maybe a down day, and Sunday it seemed like we had a pay-per-view every week.
“It was a lot. I didn’t mind it, but I mean more so in terms of my professional development. It was always inferred, and maybe at some point maybe even formalized that should anything happen if he decided to retire, I was going to be the successor to Kevin Dunn on the TV side. I, at that point, was self-aware enough to know that I couldn’t do it.
“I knew there was more I was capable of, but I had already excelled in everything they had allowed me to do.”
Ric Flair has called AEW working with Mansury a “big hire” for Tony Khan.
