What Would Happen If Vince McMahon ACTUALLY Sold WWE?

Vince McMahon might have lost the XFL, but he was still going to Disneyland, so said the hubbub that rose from the Mantell tweet. To clarify, Disney acquired Fox in 2019 and already owned ESPN, and this isn't the first time The Mouse has at least loomed large in the same conversation as the McMahon Family Empire.

For much of the 2010s, with WWE established quite effectively as a brand bigger than any of its stars could hope to be, the likelihood of it was often posited in line with similar half-stories dropping. A deal was never realised then, but most rational fans recognised the possibility then just as they have done now. McMahon himself let it be known that a plan to sell content rights had been held up by the crisis outside your window - could this extend beyond rights fees and airing agreements and into a sale, wholesale?

And what could or would it entail anyway? Disney+'s recent UK launch came the day many schools closed to combat the aforementioned health crisis, and what a f*cking relief that was. Stressed parental biases aside, the service was loaded with content thanks to the various brands now swallowed up by the corporation that the monthly subscription fee felt like a bargain. Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and good Simpsons episodes all on demand thanks to gross mass capitalism. WWE's entire Network catalogue porting over to another service would fit right in, and surely be benefit enough to make this move fan friendly, right?

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