10 People Most Likely To Succeed Vince McMahon As WWE Owner Ranked

10. Bruce Prichard

Regardless of being fired by the company a couple of times, Bruce Prichard remains one of the most powerful people in WWE. So much so, PWInsider reported in December 2020 that Prichard was the most powerful person in WWE not named McMahon.

These days, Bruce serves as a Senior Vice President and is the Executive Director for both Raw and SmackDown. For better or for worse, Prichard has a huge role in what you see on your TV screens every Monday and Friday night.

Would Vince McMahon really opt to hand over full control and ownership of WWE to Bruce Prichard? That seems unlikely, but hey, it makes for some scary 'what if?' thoughts should that somehow comes to pass. If Vince ever were to formally step down from the day-to-day running of the company, though, one would have to think that Prichard would be kept on in an extremely high power role should VKM still have a say on things.

Then again, it would be even more likely that Vince wakes up on the wrong side of the bed one day, has one of his famed "plans change, pal" epiphanies and fires Bruce yet again.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

Senior Writer

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Posted On: 13th Dec 2021

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