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(Reuters) – Vince McMahon resigned from wrestling giant TKO Group and the subsidiary WWE that he founded, over a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault and trafficking, which he said he will fight, the company said on Friday. “I have decided to resign from my executive chairmanship and the TKO board of directors, effective immediately,” McMahon said in a statement released by TKO. The suit by a former employee, filed on Thursday in federal court in Connecticut, accuses McMahon, WWE and another executive of “physical and emotional abuse, sexual assault and trafficking at WWE,” and seeks unspeci…

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