Report: WWE senior VP of talent operations & strategy fired last week
A high-ranking WWE executive was immediately fired last week due to an HR violation, according to Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp.
It’s unknown what the violation was for James Kimball, who held the position of senior vice president of talent operations & strategy, to be immediately relieved of his duties.
Kimball was hired in August 2020 as vice president of business operations. After 11 months, he was promoted to senior vice president of global strategy & development where he spent 15 months before moving to his final role.
Kimball was quoted often in media stories in relation to the company’s Next In Line (NIL) program and for their various tryouts with college athletes.
He came to WWE from UFC where he spent nearly a decade in various roles. The final three-plus years of his tenure there was as vice president of operations for their Performance Institute after nearly three years as their director of athlete development.
Since 2011, Josh has been a contributing editor to Wrestling Observer/F4WOnline.com and also hosts the Punch-Out podcast. He has also written for Fight Magazine, Bloody Elbow, Bleacher Report, and other websites. He's a 2000 graduate of the University of Maine, worked in pro sports, and once was an indie ring announcer.