Report: WWE Staff Had To Filter "Offensive" Vince McMahon

Fightful Select has published a new report on WWE creative's inner workings under the now-deposed Vince McMahon, who retired as CEO and Chairman last Friday, relinquishing his final say on the company's televised output in the process.

Per people inside WWE's creative processes, "filtering" McMahon effectively became a function of the promotion's writer's assistants while the 76-year-old was still with the promotion. These assistants had to learn what to write and what not to write for Vince, with meeting minutes requiring heavy editing.

Along with kayfabe bits and pieces, things that would need to be filtered included insensitive and offensive statements from Vince, and, in Fightful's words, "'oh god, what did he just say?' moments."

McMahon regularly said words that weren't socially acceptable and things that he had banned people from saying on television, as well as getting names wrong. This had been going on for a long time, too.

Said an ex-WWE employee on the production end:-

"If a live feed of Vince McMahon on a headset any given night ever made it out, that it would provide a picture of that production experience, especially for the announcers. There were plenty of times he was in a good mood, but he would blow up at the most ridiculous things and act like they ruined an angle that was far past its expiration date anyway."

Triple H has ascended to the role of WWE's head of creative since Vince's retirement, with the promotion formally confirming this on Monday. A source stated that Vince didn't remember things WWE had done several times over, noting this as something they felt would change under Hunter.