WWE said McMahon, the founder, and majority shareholder, would return as executive chairman.
over the past 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity.
McMahon appeared to address that possibility in a letter to the board, dated Dec. 20, but published Friday. The company on Friday did not immediately return requests from The Associated Press seeking details about the findings of that committee. It did say at the time that the company was implementing some of the suggestions of the committee.
McMahon controlled a majority of company shares even after his retirement, giving him the power to engineer a board shakeup upon his return. Three board members, JoEllen Lyons Dillon, Jeffrey R. Speed and Alan M. Wexler, were ousted to make room for McMahon and two other board members, Michelle Wilson and George Barrios.When he purchased what was then the World Wrestling Federation from his father in 1982, wrestling matches took place at small venues and appeared on local cable channels.
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