8 Signs That Vince McMahon Could Be Retiring From WWE Soon

6. The Collapse Of The XFL

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For Vince McMahon, it was a huge dent to his pride when the XFL was scrapped after one solitary season back in 2001. But to then relaunch that same football league in 2020, only to see it axed after a handful of games? That's a monumental kick in the balls for the WWE Chairman - and it's also another potential indicator that Vince could be edging closer to retirement.

McMahon is a stubborn son of a gun who hates to be handed anything that can be perceived as being even close to a defeat, but it seems that Vince's dreams of having his own football league have finally been crushed once and for all as the XFL's season was suspended, then cancelled, and then a bankruptcy order was put forward.

Along with the folding of the World Bodybuilding Federation back in 1992, the collapse of the XFL was the other notable failed venture on Vince's copybook. But to then repeat that same XFL failure nearly 20 years after that first doomed launch? That's got to be tough to take.

With this dream of McMahon's now finally out of his reach once more, that may well give Vinny Mac one further nudge towards retirement.

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