One of the most influential people behind the scenes, Kevin Dunn, has had a storied and long career in WWE. The powerful hold on all things backstage that the man long considered Vince McMahon's biggest 'yes man' is the second longest-tenured person holding a powerful position, only behind the boss himself.

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With so many years in the business, tales about Dunn from sources and wrestlers, primarily negative, have been shared, meaning fans have come to dislike him for the most part. And they have plenty of reasons to, for the Executive Vice President of Television Productions has been wrong numerous times when it comes to WWE and its product.

UPDATE: 2022/12/04 07:30 EST BY JOEY HAVERFORD

The shocking change of the landscape in WWE with Triple H replacing Vince McMahon as the main creative force has surprised many that Kevin Dunn is still around. Previous reports indicated that Triple H and Stephanie McMahon would want to cut bait with Dunn due to his fundamental creative differences with wrestling's strongest power couple. Vince’s loyalty has extended to the new regime keeping Dunn in his position.

The experience of Dunn makes him a valued part of WWE, but the stories of his foolish moments continue to live on. Even more things about Dunn have proved he can be wrong about what’s best for business in WWE. Few people have as negative of a reputation as Dunn in wrestling, and it shows with the instances of him being wrong.

13 Preferring Shane McMahon Over Triple H & Stephanie

Triple H and Stephanie McMahon ended up replacing Vince McMahon as the people in charge of WWE’s future. Many people within WWE were surprised that Shane McMahon was completely out of the picture. Kevin Dunn was among the list of important names closer to Shane than Stephanie and Triple H.

Vice Sports reported that Shane scheduled a meeting in 2012 through Dunn to discuss running creative. The controversial departure of Shane and Triple H/Stephanie doing a great job proved Dunn leaned towards the wrong side.

12 Micromanaging Commentary

Vince McMahon had a terrible reputation for micromanaging the commentary team during live WWE shows. Every major commentator under Vince had to deal with voices in their headsets yelling commands while trying to call a match on the fly.

Kevin Dunn was the person most vocal behind McMahon since he ran the entire production of camera cuts and how the show was directed. Jim Ross has shared that Dunn was in his headset almost as much as Vince to show how badly WWE micromanaged their commentary team.

11 Not Believing In Jon Moxley

Jon Moxley is viewed as AEW’s best free agent signing since CM Punk’s tenure ended in disaster. The company has trusted Moxley in a top role to successful results after he opted to leave WWE due to his frustrations working there.

Moxley’s book revealed that he despised Kevin Dunn as one of the people that was most against him. Dunn apparently felt Moxley didn’t apologize well enough after a miscommunication on air. Moxley leaving WWE helped the competition and took away a credible WWE star partially thanks to Dunn’s input.

10 Burying Becky Lynch

Kevin Dunn looked foolish for disliking beloved talents and this is also a microcosm of why modern WWE fans loathe him so much. It's shocking to envision today that Dunn wanted to hold down the Irish Lasskicker as he didn't enjoy Becky Lynch's promos and believed her accent held her back.

Apparently, Dunn was a big reason Lynch's reign as the inaugural SmackDown Women's Champion concluded quickly to Alexa Bliss. Becky is now the biggest female star in the company and arguably one of its most prominent overall, so Kevin was wrong in not viewing her potential as highly as her peers.

9 Not Pushing Performers With Accents

Speaking of wrestlers and accents, Kevin Dunn is someone who is vehemently against any wrestler with an accent. The belief is that audiences will misunderstand them, so they must not be pushed beyond a point.

Jim Cornette and Jim Ross have confirmed this, saying Dunn readily agrees with Vince McMahon's contempt for anyone speaking out of the ordinary. This is absurd, as anyone's talents must not be based on their accent but on what they do in the ring and how they interact with audiences.

8 Those Camera Cuts

Kevin Dunn's production style is not liked by many, which is a big reason many fans have tuned out of WWE programming in recent years. That is because the last decade or so has seen the company use fast cuts in its broadcast routine, which has not sat well with viewers.

RELATED: 13 Ways That Kevin Dunn Is Helping To Ruin WWEHence, the organization has been accused of using too many camera tricks, thus taking away from organic moments that Vince McMahon & co. so desperately crave. It has only led to fans looking away, meaning Dunn is wrong here as well.

7 Bullying Jim Ross

A favorite pastime of Vince McMahon was to bully, mock, and pick on his longtime employee and legendary announcer Jim Ross. This also happened multiple times on live TV, which is reprehensible with WWE's anti-bullying stance.

Ross himself revealed that Kevin Dunn was also a big reason for these unsavory television segments. The latter pitching ideas that made others look bad on TV, especially JR, was nothing new, which is not at all right.

6 Opposing Triple H's Approach To Wrestling

Kevin Dunn is known as a dinosaur in modern wrestling, having not moved with the times, just like his beloved leader Vince McMahon. Meanwhile, what Triple H managed to do when he was head of NXT was awe-inspiring and should have been a lesson to the veteran duo.

However, Dunn has seemingly always opposed Hunter's views about wrestling and buried many of NXT's stars, especially those the latter believed in. This was such a wrong thing to do and fueled fans to hate him even more.

5 Disrespecting Legends

Recently, many performers deemed WWE legends have moved away from the company, finding solace in promotions like AEW, NJPW, and Impact. This is because of how they were treated backstage and on TV under Vince McMahon's watch.

Much of the blame seemingly lies with Kevin Dunn, who has pushed for such segments, as already seen in Jim Ross' case. Losing respected veterans who could have guided the younger generation is a massive blow, and the fact that Dunn was involved puts him in the wrong here.

4 Against Managers

There was a time when WWE and managers went hand in hand. This was especially true of the late 80s and early 90s, and even a bit in the Attitude Era when the company benefited from that storytelling device.

However, that idea has seemingly died down in recent eras, thanks to Vince McMahon and his 'yes' man feeling the concept is outdated. Kevin Dunn is again in the wrong here, and this approach has seen many talented wrestlers suffer.

3 Preferring Older Stars

Many ex-writers have revealed how WWE sees and handles its entire writing process. Vince McMahon might make the final decisions, but Kevin Dunn is often in his ear, convincing him for and against certain pitches, especially when it comes to using newer and older stars.

They also said that Dunn has often politicked against newer talents who don't fit WWE's outdated ideas of an ideal superstar. Dunn is massively at fault here, as many superb wrestlers have been denied opportunities because of such obsolete views on body sizes.

2 Women's Wrestling

Perhaps modern fans' biggest gripe with Kevin Dunn, and rightly so, is his view towards women's wrestling. Dunn, much like Vince McMahon, felt that women cannot be as big draws as men and hence treated them with much apathy.

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There are even stories of Dunn passing sexist comments about female talent like Kelly Kelly and how they should be pushed based on their looks. Former WWE writer Freddie Prinze Jr. revealed that his pitches often fell short of making television due to Dunn not wanting to push women unless he found them attractive.

1 Business Over Mental Health

Wrestlers are humans, after all, and go through all the difficult experiences we all do. However, Vince McMahon and his 'yes' men don't seem to have gotten that memo with their prior treatment of their wrestlers as performers first.

WWE has treated its employees shabbily and continues to do so, especially with the multiple recent releases. And while Kevin Dunn is not directly responsible for this, he shares these sentiments and is sure to be in his boss' ear during decision-making, putting him in the red for being so ruthless and petty.