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The decision to part with Patrick Dooley reportedly did not come from inside WWE. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the call to let Dooley go came from someone at the Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro level at TKO. The report added that people in WWE were surprised he was cut. Dooley’s departure was first reported by PWInsider, which said he quietly left the company in July alongside several other staffers who exited due to budget cuts. He had been WWE’s Senior Vice President of Global Strategy and Creative Operations since December 2023, and was widely described internally as Triple H‘s number two on every matter outside of creative. He joined WWE in 2018 as Director of Global Strategy after working at CA Technologies and the consulting firm Oliver Wyman, and holds an MBA from Wharton. During his time with the company, he was involved in WWE’s acquisition of Lucha Libre AAA, AAA’s television deal with FOX Latin America, and NXT’s return to Full Sail University. WWE has not commented publicly on the departure and no replacement has been named. The Patrick Dooley Exit Says More About TKO Than About WWE If the report is accurate, the story is not that a senior vice president lost his job. It is that Triple H’s top business lieutenant was removed by people above Triple H, and the building found out after the fact. Companies reorganize constantly. They do not usually reach two levels down to do it without the person in charge of that department seeing it coming. Dooley’s fingerprints are on the AAA purchase, the FOX Latin America deal and the Full Sail move, which is to say on most of WWE’s recent expansion outside the United States. Cutting the executive who built that infrastructure in the same window as a round of budget reductions is a fairly clear signal about which direction the priorities have shifted, and it is not toward more of the same. Tap Here To Add Sportsnaut As A Trusted Source on Google