News broke on Thursday that WWE Co-Presidents, Michelle Wilson and George Barrios, had been let go from the company. This was a surprising decision, which led to WWE’s stock dropping around 20%.
Mike Johnson of PWinsider has provided some tidbits about the backstage reaction to WWE letting go Wilson and Barrios. Here is what he wrote:
Within WWE, the reaction among employees we have spoken to was pretty much complete shock. If there was something brewing that was leading to yesterday’s ouster, it was kept extremely quiet and was not something being spoken about openly within WWE’s Stamford offices
Johnson also spoke to two WWE employees to get their reaction to what happened:
One WWE employee, speaking under condition of anonymity, stated that when the news was announced internally, all work that they were aware of pretty much “ground to a halt” as everyone was stunned by the news. Another staffer claimed it was the most shocking day they could remember since “that horrible day in 2007.”
Johnson adds that a lot of employees are wondering what is going to happen next:
There was a lot of feelings of “what happens now” with projects and strategies that were already underway, including the planned tiered launch of the WWE Network that had been earmarked for the first quarter of 2020.
We will let you know if we hear anything more.
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