WWE founder Vince McMahon blasts ‘misleading’ Netflix series launching tomorrow

Former WWE brag Vince McMahon has slammed the upcoming Netflix docuseries astir his life.

The 79-year-old businessman – who was the founder, CEO, president and originative pb for the wrestling elephantine for decades – has claimed the Mr. McMahon documentary is ‘misleading’ earlier its motorboat tomorrow.

As good arsenic however helium grew WWE, the series, which has been successful improvement since 2020, volition besides code assorted scandals including recent allegations of enactment trafficking and abuse made by erstwhile worker Janel Grant.

McMahon, who has denied the claims, wrote connected X: ‘I don’t regret participating successful this Netflix documentary.

‘The producers had an accidental to archer an nonsubjective communicative astir my beingness and the unthinkable concern I built, which were arsenic filled with excitement, drama, fun, and a just magnitude of contention and beingness lessons.

‘Unfortunately, based connected an aboriginal partial chopped I’ve seen, this doc falls abbreviated and takes the predictable way of conflating the “Mr. McMahon” quality with my existent self, Vince. The rubric and promos unsocial marque that evident.’

He claimed that ‘a batch has been misinterpreted oregon near retired wholly successful an effort to permission viewers intentionally confused’.

McMahon continued: portion accusing producers of utilizing ‘typical editing tricks with retired of discourse footage and dated soundbites’ successful bid to ‘distort the viewers’ cognition and enactment a deceptive narrative’.

He continued: ‘In an effort to further their misleading account, the producers usage a suit based connected an matter I ended arsenic grounds that I am, successful fact, “Mr. McMahon”.

‘I anticipation the spectator volition support an unfastened caput and retrieve that determination are 2 sides to each story.’

Netflix antecedently announced that the docuseries – which is produced by Bill Simmons and ‘Tiger King’ manager Chris Smith – chronicles ‘the emergence and autumn of the WWE’s arguable founder’.

The programme volition see interviews with McMahon earlier his resignation from WWE successful 2022, arsenic good arsenic conversations with his family, and wrestling legends similar Hulk Hogan, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and John Cena.

The bid volition besides diagnostic interviews with ‘the journalists who uncovered’ the allegations, which he has vehemently denied.

McMahon resigned arsenic enforcement president of WWE in January 2024 aft allegations of enactment trafficking and abuse, with Grant’s suit was enactment connected clasp successful May astatine the petition of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York to let for a national investigation.

The suit contains different graphic descriptions of however she was allegedly violently raped repeatedly and abused successful different ways by McMahon and different WWE executives.

In effect to McMahon’s latest statement, Grant’s lawyer Ann Callis said: ‘Vince McMahon physically and emotionally abused, sexually assaulted and quality trafficked Janel Grant for much than 2 years.

‘Calling his horrific and transgression behaviour “an affair” is delusional and thing much than a bittersweet effort to prevention his shredded reputation.

‘Although Ms. Grant has not seen the “Mr. McMahon” docuseries, we anticipation it shines a agleam airy connected his abhorrent and transgression actions by accurately portraying the realities of his abusive and exploitative behavior.

‘Ms. Grant volition nary longer beryllium silenced by McMahon.’

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