According to Puck’s Matt Belloni, the series was nearly finished in 2022 when McMahon was forced to step down from WWE for the first time due to allegations of hush money settlements for sexual misconduct. Director Chris Smith went on to reportedly add the controversy to the series. Belloni went on to note that Vince McMahon even tried to buy back the project from Netflix at this point after seeing some early footage. Netflix reportedly refused to let go of the series.
Then, when Janel Grant’s lawsuit against McMahon emerged in January 2024, Chris Smith reportedly made more revisions to the project, despite the fact that the series was supposed to release in March. The finished product is set to prominently feature McMahon’s recent allegations, according to Belloni.
I saw it noted in another reporting that when Netflix rebuked McMahon’s attempt, he reportedly went so far as to get Ari Emanuel to try and purchase it directly himself, to which they also rejected.
You can’t talk about the terrible things I’ve done! I’m rich!
Trump becoming president exploded the last bit of Vince’s brain. Those two have been having a pissing contest since the 80s. McMahon has more money than Trump now, but Trump has more power.
Between this report and him trying to claim the series got confused about kayfabe yesterday, it’s gotta get nasty. I’ve already read a lot from various books, so I’m curious how much new info they have.
It wouldnt surprise me if his concern over it is mostly the recent Grant revisions since so much of his past is covered already but…I mean if anyone has more skeletons in their closet, its Vince lol
Shit covered skeletons, it would seem
Now we know what he was cashing out all that money for, lol.
This has been in the works for years, they’ve known since he was forced out the first time Netflix was making this and still TKO chose to put RAW on Netflix… I’m just saying, that moving his flagship show to Netflix feels like some kind of vindictive karma from somebody in WWE.
Maybe they thought that signing the deal with Netflix would get them to back off on the documentary. Which, I guess that didn’t happen, and good on Netflix for it.
