10 Things Wrestling Fans Need To Know About WWE's Old HQ

Every promotion has its own base of operations to conduct business and the like, but only World Wrestling Entertainment has a headquarters that fans know by name. For over three decades, WWE made its homebase a building in Stamford, Connecticut. Dubbed Titan Towers, this seven-story building was named after Titan Sports, the former name of the company that owned what was once called the World Wrestling Federation.

With WWE moving on to a new location, now is a great time to look back and share some things about Titan Towers that fans should definitely know about, including some notable kayfabe WWE moments that went down in the building.

10 Not WWE’s Original Headquarters

The Promotion’s Long-Time HQ Was Built In 1989

Previous Locations	City
Cape Cod Coliseum	South Yarmouth, MA
Holly Hill Lane	Greenwich, CT
1055 Summer Street	Stamford, CT

Given that, as established, WWE only occupied Titan Towers for roughly 22 years, it stands to reason that WWE made other locations its home base over the years. From the late 1970s until the early 1980s, WWE operated out of the Cape Cod Coliseum in Massachusetts, holding wrestling events in the same building, which McMahon owned. As the 1980s went on, WWE moved on to Greenwich and Stamford — both in Connecticut — before settling down in Titan Towers (also in Stamford) in 1991.

9 The Location For LiveWire

The 1990s Call-In Show Was Shot There

Show	Run	Notable Hosts
WWF LiveWire	1996-2001	Todd Pettengill, Michael Cole, Sunny, Jim Cornette

While angles, commercials, and even matches have been filmed at Titan Towers, the location was also host to a regularly airing WWE television show in the 1990s and early 2000s. WWF LiveWire wasn’t an in-ring show like the Raw and other programming, but rather a call-in show where the hosts discussed the promotion’s kayfabe goings-on and took calls from fans. A largely forgotten show today, LiveWire did feature a notable incident where ECW’s Paul Heyman called in under a fake name and taunted WWE.

8 Steve Austin Took It Over In 1999

Austin Became The New (Kayfabe) CEO

Event	Date
Raw Is War	6/14/1999

One of the defining storylines of the highly lucrative Attitude Era was the feud between WWE boss Vince McMahon and his own employee, top star/cash cow Stone Cold Steve Austin. Their years-long feud included many twists and turns, including a brief period where Austin took over as the (kayfabe) CEO of the company.

This new development resulted in a very entertaining episode of Raw in mid-June 1999, which featured segments of Austin on location at Titan Towers, running the company in a manner characteristic of his Stone Cold persona. In other words, he drank beer at work.

7 WWE Shot Content There In The 1990s

Notable Pieces Included A Raw Intro & A Super Bowl Commercial

Event	Date	Location	Teams	Result
Super Bowl 33	1/31/1999	Pro Player Stadium (Miami, FL)	Denver Broncos vs. Atlanta Falcons	Broncos, 34-19

The Austin angle in 1999 wasn’t the first time WWE shot content at Titan Towers, however. In 1995, WWE filmed wrestlers on the building’s rooftop for part of the Raw intro at the time. More famously, WWE shot an entire commercial for January’s Super Bowl 33. Created simply to promote WWE and its programming, the 30-second spot depicted Titan Towers as a chaotic workplace, with WWE stars at the time — including Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, and Mankind, not to mention Vince McMahon himself — doing violent pro wrestling things in what otherwise appeared to be a run-of-the-mill workplace.

6 Titan Towers Has A Gym Where Vince McMahon Works Out

The Location Is Also A Pokémon Gym

WWE Personality	Favorite Band
Vince McMahon	AC/DC

Given that wrestlers need to be physically fit to perform in the ring, it should come as no surprise that Titan Towers had its own on-site gym. Boasting loads of equipment the gym was open not only to WWE wrestlers, but also employees of the company. Most notably, Vince McMahon regularly frequented the gym himself — no surprise, given his outrageous physique in the 1990s — and employees would be very much aware that McMahon was working out because he’d be blasting music by AC/DC, reportedly his favorite band.

5 Titan Towers Had A Video Vault & Loads Of Props

WWE’s Archives Houses Hidden Gems & Collector’s Greatest Fantasies

Selected Tape Libraries Owned By WWE: AWA, ECW, WCW, WCCW, Evolve, Dragon Gate USA
WWE Warehouse has plenty of hidden gems

As fans have likely seen in various video content Titan Towers was adorned in WWE paraphernalia like posters and photos. But the treasures contained in the building went beyond simple decoration — there was also some rare gems that fans would love to see. For one thing, Titan Towers had an entire warehouse area devoted to storing various props from WWE programming over the years, including countless caskets from Undertaker matches. Then there’s WWE’s video library which features not only tapes from WWE’s history, but also the libraries from other promotions that the company’s purchased, including WCW, ECW, various territories, and recent indie promotions like Evolve and Dragon Gate USA.

4 Brock Lesnar Terrorized It In 2023

This Incident Was Part Of Lesnar’s Feud With Triple H

Match	Event	Date
Brock Lesnar vs. Triple H	Extreme Rules	5/19/2013

After returning to WWE in 2012, Brock Lesnar moved on from a feud with John Cena to a feud with Triple H, an angle that involved incidents like Lesnar breaking Shawn Michaels’ arm with a Kimura Lock. More relevantly, Lesnar and manager Paul Heyman also invaded Titan Towers, as Trips had become WWE’s Chief Operating Officer in 2011.

Lesnar didn’t just show up for intimidation purposes, however — “The Beast” ended up attacking WWE office workers and trashed Triple H’s office during the visit.

3 Money In The Bank 2020 Was Partially Held There

The Unique Location Was The Result Of The COVID Pandemic

Event	Date	Ladder Match Winners
Money In The Bank	5/10/2020	Otis, Asuka

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown resulted in WWE attempting to get creative in order to continue delivering weekly wrestling content. In addition to filming most of its shows at the WWE Performance Center, the promotion also filmed some special matches in other locations, including at Titan Towers. For the 2020 Money in the Bank ladder matches, the wrestlers had to fight through the building to get to the wrestling ring that was set up on Titan Towers’ rooftop, which of course had the MITB briefcases suspended over it.

2 Vince McMahon Had A T-Rex Skull In His Office

The Fossil Was A Gift From Triple H

Fans watching said Money in the Bank ladder match in 2020 noticed a curious object in Vince McMahon’s office when AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan ventured into the room: what appeared to be a full-size fossil of a tyrannosaurus rex’s skull. The T-rex head was a real decoration in McMahon’s office — a gift from his son-in-law Triple H. While filming the movie The Chaperone, Trips was reportedly so impressed with the fossils in one scene taking place in the museum that he got one for Vicne as a gift.

1 WWE Moved To A New Building In 2023

The New HQ Is Still In Stamford

An Inside Look At WWE's New Headquarters

Location	Address
Stamford, CT	677-707 Washington Blvd

The past several years have seen WWE undergo several changes, including a merger with the UFC that was announced in 2023. A few years before that, in 2019 WWE announced its intentions to move out of Titan Towers after occupying the building for about 28 years in favor of a new building, albeit one still located in Stamford, Connecticut. In 2023, WWE officially began moving to the new building, which already has a giant WWE Championship belt in front of it.