Vince McMahon returned to the WWE Board of Directors on January 6 to help explore a sale of the company and help negotiate its next TV rights deal.
McMahon has returned to WWE HQ, but has yet to take over creative.
While speaking on the NXT Vengeance Day media call, Shawn Michaels, who oversees NXT creative, was asked if McMahon has helped with any creative since he returned.
“He has not, and I don’t think (he will). I’d imagine that Vince probably has bigger fish to fry than us down here in NXT. One of the things I enjoy about my job down here is the plausible deniability that I’m allowed to have. I don’t ask a lot of questions because I don’t want to know the answers to some of them. Even back when we were here [with Vince in charge], he was very good with us down here. They helped us in a certain way and guided us in how they wanted it to go, but after that, it was hands-off. Hunter, the same thing. They’re very good with us down here in NXT. They understand it’s a different environment down here, so we’re very fortunate to kind of be independent, no matter who is running the ship up there in Stamford, they allow us a great deal of freedom down here, which we appreciate,” he said.
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