Just hours after TKO Group Holdings, Inc. announced that it had integrated the UFC and WWE Live Events teams into one unit known as the TKO Live Events Strategy Team, the company let go of several WWE employees last week.
Notable names to be let go included Kristen Prouty and Tavia Hartley. Prouty worked for WWE since 2000, where she became the Senior VP of Entertainment Relations and was let go. She had been in that role for nearly 20 years and was said to be instrumental in helping land the Logan Paul deal. Hartley was hired in 2021 and was listed as a Talent Operations and appearances manager.
It was first reported by John Pollock of POST Wrestling and Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics that WWE let go of Head of Corporate Social Responsibility Beth Fisher, who joined WWE in 2011. At one point, Beth worked directly under Vince McMahon.
PWInsider.com reports they were told about ten long-standing employees from different divisions being let go. The report added that there were additional departures in Travel, Marketing, and several other departments.
These releases were after Steve Rubin, who held the post of Senior Director, TV Event Relations after joining WWE in 1998, and Michael Levin, VP of International Events and GM of Emerging Market after joining WWE in 2016, had been released.
