Now we know why Vince McMahon stepped down from WWE in 2022, and came back six months later to find a buyer. McMahon, it would appear, needed to cash out before the sh-t that finally hit the fan on Thursday, in the form of a bombshell lawsuit alleging all manner of depraved, corporate-sponsored sexual abuse, would wreck the value of the multibillion-dollar company that his father had handed to him for a mere $1 million of other people’s money in 1982.