There’s no arguing with the genius Vince McMahon has shown in his decades long career as owner of the WWE as he’s acquired and used some of the greatest talent in history perfectly.
Their storylines were once well thought out and engaging and they often left us in tear from heartbreak or celebration.
But his reputation has become tarnished since he bought WCW in 2001 and ended the Monday Night Wars. At that point, he’d owned the WWE for not quite 20 years and WCW was arguably the greatest challenge of his career.
Did Endeavor Bench Vince McMahon After Raw Debacle?
After that, while the Ruthless Aggression Era was fun, it was a step down from the Attitude Era and the product continued to downslide in blandness and unoriginality and McMahon has been accused by many for letting the business pass him by.
But there’s a legitimate argument that he accomplished everything, so there was no reason to do anything but play it safe and continue making TV deals.
Then the accusations of sexual misconduct came out as well as hush money for affairs and he stepped aside.
What can you do for me lately?
When he forced his way back into power in the WWE for the sole purpose of selling the company, fans didn’t know what to think, but not that’s settled for the most part with the news that Endeavor bought the WWE.
The same day the news broke McMahon reportedly took over creative control of WWE Raw on April 3, and this is where we purely speculate on what happened.
With reports indicating Raw and Smackdown rose in the ratings by 4% and 6% respectively and fans, critics, and talent were happy, we think McMahon pitched himself.
In an interview, McMahon said he was asked to stay on to run the WWE and he has a reported 15% of the shares, but not a controlling interest.
This means he has a boss or bosses in Endeavor and will have to prove he can still do the job, so to speak.
And this is where things become interesting.
Failed test?
There’s a reasonable chance that he convinced the higher ups in Endeavor that he should book, and so he took over the creative duties for Raw in what has been widely panned as near a dumpster fire as possible without calling it that.
Nothing flowed or made sense, and it was like all the positive steps Triple H had made in the preceding months was wiped away.
Then the fans spoke out on social media and Fire Vince McMahon trended for nearly a whole week.
There were reports that Endeavor was aware of the fan reaction and criticism, and when WWE Smackdown (April 7) came around, it was Triple H running it with McMahon reportedly making minor changes remotely.
It was a 180 from how Raw was run, and it could mean that McMahon’s audition was viewed as a failure due to the fans and talent not being happy, and he was removed from the creative part.
It’s always an organic methodology that based on fan reactions with these things, and it’d make sense McMahon found himself handcuffed by some of the corporate politics Eric Bischoff had to deal with in WCW.
The difference was, WCW was a fine tuned machine when Bischoff had his hands tied, while Endeavor may have saved us from dealing with “an audience of one” mentality we’ve come to expect.
What do you think? Was taking over Raw a test? Let us know in the comments below.
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