Vince McMahon threw the wrestling world into a state of shock on Friday when he confirmed after four decades in charge of WWE, he will be retiring effective immediately. That has naturally led to a lot of change backstage at the company over the weekend. John Laurinaitis appears to have been quietly ousted already, and Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan are now the joint CEOs of WWE.

Triple H Is The New Head Of Creative

Earlier in the day on Friday, WWE issued a press release revealing Triple H would once again be an EVP and also head up talent relations, a role Laurinaitis occupied up until recently. It would appear that isn't where The Game's involvement at the start of this new era for WWE begins and ends. The promotion has since confirmed to Fightful that Triple H will be in charge of WWE creative.

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As you can see via the two tweets below, Triple H will be head of creative alongside the new duties assigned to him this past Friday. Quite the workload for the Hall of Famer who has effectively been off work for most of the last year recovering from heart surgery. Triple H was rushed to hospital last September with cardiac problems that led to him retiring from in-ring action, and could well have cost him his life.

Vince McMahon Really Is Gone

Despite McMahon announcing his retirement three days ago, some fans have remained skeptical as to whether he is really gone for good. That since the former CEO is still the majority shareholder, even though he isn't at Raw or even WWE HQ, he'll still be the one pulling the strings. Confirmation that Triple H now has creative control of the entire company seems to confirm that will not be the case, and that this really is the start of a new era for WWE in every conceivable way.

McMahon's retirement comes in the wake of reports that he paid more than $12 million to former female employees in return for their silence after allegedly engaging in sexual acts with them. Investigations are still ongoing, but it should be noted just a few weeks before McMahon left WWE, he told employees he would never leave. The belief is that something changed significantly between then and last week.

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