Nick Khan confirms Kevin Dunn’s exit in email to WWE staff

Kevin Dunn is no longer with WWE as of this morning. 

His exit was confirmed to company employees via an internal email sent by Nick Khan on Monday. 

A copy of Khan’s email is below, courtesy of PWInsider & Fightful:

After 40+ years of helping to build WWE and, hands down, the best production and media unit in the entire sports and entertainment business, Kevin Dunn, will be leaving our company as of today.

Before WrestleMania 1, Kevin joined Vince at WWF. Many of us remember a pre-WrestleMania WWF – a regional wrestling company that looked like a regional wrestling company. Then we experienced WrestleMania 1, whether live, on closed circuit or years later elsewhere. It was magic. A regional wrestling company had become a global sports entertainment juggernaut. Vince led the way, side by side with Kevin Dunn. When many of us were kids standing in line waiting to play Pac-Man, Kevin was already on the road breaking his back to help build our company.

When you see our product now, there is nothing that comes close to its look or feel – 52 weeks a year, three to four times a week. It is singular and truly special. No other company can or will do that, and that is because of Kevin and our media team’s hard work, smarts and determination.

We are forever grateful to Kevin. He will always be a part of the WWE family.

Our own Dave Meltzer posted to X that meetings are planned in San Diego ahead of tonight’s Raw that could be related to Dunn’s departure. 

Meltzer addressed possible replacements for Dunn in yesterday’s Daily Update. He noted that Paul Levesque would want Mike Mansury to replace Dunn. However, Mansury is likely under a long-term contract with AEW. Other names mentioned for the Executive Producer role in WWE include Marty Miller and Chris Kaiser. 

Meltzer also noted that Dunn’s WWE departure is related to Vince McMahon losing power in the company.

Meltzer wrote:

I was told that this was known internally by a few, but not most as people I heard from last night were surprised, and they knew maybe a few weeks at most although the process goes back a couple of months and really has to do with Vince McMahon being out of power. Dunn has been in charge of production for decades and has 40 years with the company. He answered to nobody but Vince. So this is part of the change with Endeavor in control.