Steve Carrier on May 31, 2025
John Laurinaitis may be out of the lawsuit, but the spotlight on Vince McMahon is only intensifying—and now new details are emerging about how his corporate decisions inside WWE may have aligned with his personal life.
During the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, Garrett Gonzales pressed Dave Meltzer about the deeper corporate implications of the lawsuit, specifically the timeline of when Laurinaitis returned to power and how that aligned with Grant’s rapid entry into WWE’s system. Meltzer didn’t hold back and described the entire setup as McMahon using the company’s executive infrastructure to facilitate his personal agenda.
Meltzer laid out the internal timeline, revealing that Laurinaitis returned to WWE in March 2021, replacing Triple H in talent relations—something that was already seen as a red flag internally. At the same time, Janel Grant was brought in as Laurinaitis’ assistant, despite already having an alleged personal relationship with McMahon.
“So Laurinaitis comes back in March 2021. That’s when they quietly moved Triple H out of talent relations — and that alone was strange, because Hunter had been building that division for years. But the key detail is that around that same time, Janel Grant shows up in the system as Laurinaitis’ assistant.”
He continued, pointing out how McMahon allegedly tried to elevate Grant’s status within WWE beyond what made sense for her role.
“Now we know through the lawsuit that she was involved with Vince before that — and here she is working directly under Laurinaitis, who just so happens to be Vince’s guy. Then later, Vince tries to push her up to a Vice President role, and people inside the company actually objected. There were meetings about it. They knew something wasn’t right.”
But Meltzer’s most damning accusation came when he described how McMahon allegedly manipulated WWE’s structure to suit his personal life.
“Vince was literally trying to create a corporate structure around his personal life. That’s worse than I thought. He used executive positions to script his personal life. It’s not just unethical, it’s industrial-level abuse of power.”
He didn’t stop there.
“This isn’t just about one guy doing bad stuff in secret — this was the entire infrastructure being bent to accommodate it. It’s wild.”
While Laurinaitis has settled and stepped away as a co-defendant, he’s now cooperating as a witness, adding more fuel to the already explosive legal battle. WWE and McMahon are expected to file motions by June 13 to move the case to private arbitration, citing a nondisclosure agreement signed by Grant. In the meantime, the discovery phase continues—and so do the revelations.
If Meltzer’s timeline holds true, this could go far beyond one lawsuit—it could expose the entire corporate culture that allowed it to happen.
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May 31, 2025 8:28 am
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