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UPDATED, 12:29 PM: XFL, the pro football league relaunched this year by WWE’s Vince McMahon, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The move comes three days after the league suspended operations and laid off its staff. BREAKING: XFL files for bankruptcy. N bankruptcy filing reveals that WWE actually does own part of…

CEO Vince McMahon has basically agreed to sell 15% of his stock in the company he founded, contributing to one analyst's decision to slap a "sell" rating on the shares Wednesday. WWE last year had promised a transformative deal, presumably selling the WWE Network to a large streaming company. The expectation was that…

The XFL has tossed in the towel on its first season, officially declaring that there’s no hope of bringing back games this year. "The COVID-19 pandemic, and the most recent local and state regulations, have left the XFL no choice but to officially cancel the remainder of the 2020 season," the league said in a…

UPDATED with closing stock price. Saturday’s return of the XFL — an upstart pro football league being resurrected by pro wrestling impresario Vince McMahon — is being overshadowed by trouble at McMahon’s main company, the WWE. The wrestling and entertainment concern reported spotty fourth-quarter results Thursday…

In a management shakeup Thursday, just a week before its fourth-quarter earnings report, the WWE said Co-Presidents George Barrios and Michelle Wilson are immediately departing the company and its board. No details were provided for the ouster of the executives, each of whom had spent more than a decade at the…

The revived XFL today unveiled the names and logos for its eight teams, with the Los Angeles Wildcats representing the City of Angels and the New York Guardians holding down the other coast. Other league teams include the Dallas Renegades, Houston Roughnecks, St. Louis BattleHawks, Seattle Dragons, Tampa Bay Vipers…

On Sunday night, John Oliver did not hold back with his takedown of WWE boss Vince McMahon and the working conditions and treatment of the wrestlers in the organization on HBO’s Last Week Tonight. True to professional wrestling form, the WWE wasn’t about to take the hits without retaliating. Deadline received a…

EXCLUSIVE: A power struggle has ended with Michael Luisi out as WWE Studios president. Sources said there was a clash with Michelle Wilson, the co-president of WWE who took on a co-president title at WWE Studios as well. Luisi took the top post eight years ago, and in that time WWE Studios has grown to be an active…

WWE chief Vince McMahon confirmed today that he is reviving the XFL, a professional football league that infamously flamed out after one season in its first incarnation, a joint venture with NBC in 2001. The league will begin play in 2020, and the wrestling impresario insisted during a news conference that the…

UPDATE:  The XFL’s return may be moving closer to reality. In a move to fund his new Alpha Entertainment, which may be a vehicle to the XFL’s return, wrestling mogul Vince McMahon has filed details with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on the sale of 3.34 million shares of his WWE empire, equaling about…

WWE Studios is about to drop the big elbow on a multiplatform push. The pro wrestling titan's motion picture production arm is expanding into scripted, non-scripted, family and animated television and digital content. Michael Luisi will continue to oversee the WWE Studios as president and also will oversee the new…

EXCLUSIVE: The story of pro wrestling impresario Vince McMahon is getting the Hollywood treatment with Pandemonium, a drama that will be directed by John Requa & Glenn Ficarra from a script by Craig A. Williams. The film is landing at Sony Pictures’ TriStar, with Andrew Lazar producing with WWE Studios president…