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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] 3 points 10 months ago

Wow. Guess TKO really did just kick Vince upstairs while giving him no real power over the product.

I remember how we all fucking hated Dunn's production style and his creative sensibilities back in the day, but I haven't really been following WWE pretty much since the Saudi Arabia deal was signed. Is him leaving still something to be celebrated, or did he actually get better over the last few years?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Need a proper send off with a 21 cut salute with most cuts missing the action

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

End of an era indeed. Dunn may be 12lbs of shit in a 4lb sack but he did the job for a long damn time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Any idea if AEW hires him? All I know about him is the shaky-cam jokes, but it sounds like he has the kind of experience AEW could use backstage.

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

It wasn't just "shaky". It was all the rapid fire zooms, missing of important spots and flat out the camera doing more flippy shit than El Hijo de Vikingo after 17 Red Bulls and 6 kilos of cocaine (not implying that's ever happened, but I think you get the idea).

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

he's literally the guy responsible for wwe being what they are now. tko is absolutely going to regret this.