Following Vince McMahon’s return to WWE to pursue a sale of the company. There have been rumors going around online regarding who will buy the company.
On Tuesday night, a major rumor went around that WWE had sold to the Saudi Arabia Public Interest Fund. That is not the case.
As previously reported, WWE is in preliminary sale talks as they’ve just hired JPMorgan to help with the talks. If WWE is sold, and it goes back to being a private company, there will be a lot of things that have to happen to make it official since they’re public right now, which draws out the sale process. Click here for the latest on where things stand regarding a potential WWE sale.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that WWE CEO Nick Khan was in Los Angeles, meeting with some “heavy hitters” at the college football championship game on Monday instead of being at Raw, including The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger and ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro.
Disney has been one of the many companies speculated to be a potential buyer.
“Nick Khan was in Los Angeles when I was in Los Angeles…[Nick] went to the football game Monday night. He wasn’t at Raw and met with heavy hitters because they went to the College Football Championship game [between TCU and Georgia at SoFi Stadium], Bob Iger, Jimmy Pitaro, so I guess those names will ring some bells.”
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