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[PWInsider] Kevin Dunn Exiting WWE (www.pwinsider.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Dunn, who held the post of Executive Producer & Chief, Global Television Distribution, informed WWE around Christmas week he was exiting after more than three decades with the company. We are told that a big factor in his decision to retire is changes made internally post-Endeavor acquisition and as one source stated, that Dunn was "never going to do anything that was dictacted" to him, as opposed to how he personally oversaw production in the past. We are told this was not an issue of creative but two differing versions of how things should be run from a TV production perspective as WWE's new owner seeks to cut costs.

... See link for full story, this is truly the end of an era.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I would argue it's unlikely, AEW already hired the guy WWE trained to eventually take over and had even promoted to VP of TV Production, Mike Mansury. Mansury worked 11 years under Dunn, he probably knows the entire WWE production playbook.