Vince McMahon not allowed at WWE headquarters, gym he helped design

According to a former longtime WWE employee, Vince McMahon is not permitted in WWE headquarters.

Tom Carlucci first started with WWE in January 1988 and worked in various roles for the company throughout the next three decades. At the time he was hired, only 10 employees worked on WWE’s production team. Carlucci was a guest on The Insiders podcast recently and told host Conrad Thompson that McMahon is not even allowed in WWE’s new headquarters.

“He can’t even walk in the building,” Carlucci said. “That’s crazy that you drive by that building, you got the big championship belt, he always wanted those from day one, Conrad. Cause we were in two different buildings, you had the corporate office off exit nine, and then we’re right down the street from the corporate office, our big production studio. He always wanted us under one roof. That was his dream to have us under one roof. The dream came and he’s not even a part of it anymore.”

Carlucci continued to say that McMahon is not allowed in the WWE headquarters gym, which McMahon helped design along with his longtime trainer, Michael A. Monteforte.

“The gym was created for Vince. He designed the gym with his trainer Mike, who I know really well. He can’t even go in that gym anymore. He can’t step foot anywhere. Every meeting that goes on over there, everybody asks, ‘Is Vince coming?’ ‘You’ll never see Vince here again,’ from the TKO people.”

Carlucci then expressed frustration with Paul Heyman “burying” McMahon during his Hall of Fame speech the Friday before WrestleMania 40.

“He’s the legacy and that’s what killed me about WrestleMania was, everybody just buried Vince,” Carlucci continued. “Heyman buried Vince, ‘I’m with Triple H now and..’ Like, does Paul remember who bailed Heyman out back in the day? Vince. Who made Triple H Triple H? Great guy, I’m not saying anything bad about Triple H but if it wasn’t for Vince, half the guys wouldn’t even be there making the money they made. And then you’re going to put the boots to him? Making him guilty before the trial even happens and saying you’re a Paul Levesque guy? There would be no WrestleMania without Vince so it is crazy that you talk about his legacy and now he’s just alone, he’s alone.”

Carlucci and Thompson also discussed the “rumor and innuendo” that there is some estrangement within the McMahon family stemming from the allegations against Vince.

“I think there is a lot of strain on the family at this point in time with Vince, his kids, Shane… I don’t know for a fact but I think it is definitely happening. I think he is alone, I think he is. It’s hard to believe but I really do, I think he is. I don’t think Vince had a lot of fans around him.”

The full interview is available here.