Former producer says TKO’s involvement in WWE decisions could be “the downfall of the wrestling business”
On May 2nd 2026, it was reported that The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) mutually agreed to part ways with WWE. While speaking on the Duke Loves Rasslin, former WWE Producer D-Von Dudley addressed the 2026 WWE departures…
“What I’m gathering from the information that I’m getting, I don’t know if it was WWE. I think that was a TKO [parent company of WWE] decision.
And I hate that, you know, TKO is getting the blame for pretty much everything, whether it’s ticket prices or the releases. But, you know, they’re corporate. And I’ve always said corporate will never work in the wrestling business. It’ll be the downfall of the wrestling business.
And you can’t do wrestling like it’s corporate. You just can’t, because there’s so much involved. There’s so many different things that are involved in that, so you really can’t do it like that.
But unfortunately, I think that’s what it was. I think Triple H would have loved to have kept them and whatever, but I just feel that it was a corporate decision that was being made.
And like I said, corporate is never good in the wrestling business because they don’t get it, nor do they understand it. They’re looking at the dollar.”