10 Times WWE Went Back On Big Decisions

Speaking of Trump, two years after the limo debacle, the business magnate supposedly purchased Monday Night Raw from Vince McMahon on Jun 15, 2009.

Now, Raw is a TV show, not an organisation, so you may be asking how Trump could have even purchased it in the first place. In which case, you’re already one step ahead of WWE stakeholders who, much like Trump in 2007, were said to have bought into the act a little too much.

In fairness, the USA Network themselves put out a press release – a bogus one, mind – announcing Trump’s purchase of Raw. But even so, it seems a little rash that investors panicked to the point that the WWE stock price saw a near-overnight decline of 7%.

The fallout led to the USA Network retracting its statement and acknowledging there was no actual sale, though WWE weren’t ready to drop the act just yet. The following week’s Raw was scheduled to be a Trump-backed, commercial-free show, though the company eventually doubled back that night and had Trump "sell" Raw back to McMahon for twice the price, moving swiftly on from the whole affair.