Vince McMahon agrees to reimburse $17.4 million to WWE

By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)

WWE issued the following financial disclosure on Friday to announce that Vince McMahon has agreed to reimburse the company $17.4 million related to the money spent on the investigation into his actions.

On March 20, 2023, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a reimbursement agreement (the “Agreement”) with Vincent K. McMahon, the Company’s Executive Chairman, director and controlling stockholder.

The Agreement provides that Mr. McMahon will pay the Company approximately $17.4 million to reimburse the Company for the costs that have been incurred and paid by the Company and/or its subsidiaries, through January 31, 2023, in connection with and/or arising from the investigation conducted by a special committee of the Company’s board of directors, related revisions to the Company’s financial statements and other related matters. Such payment was made on March 23, 2023.

The Agreement further provides that Mr. McMahon will also review in good faith and reimburse the Company for additional costs incurred by the Company and/or its subsidiaries subsequent to January 31, 2023 (or that have been incurred by the Company and/or its subsidiaries and not yet paid as of January 31, 2023), in connection with and/or arising from the same matters.

The Agreement also includes a release of Mr. McMahon by the Company regarding the recovery of the costs described above and a release of the Company by Mr. McMahon regarding the investigation and related matters described above.

Powell’s POV: I guess we can file this one in WWE’s Friday afternoon news dump section.

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Readers Comments (1)

  1. Ironic. WWE can use some of that money to pay the wrestlers Vince fired lmao

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