Current Events > Vince McMahon is back in charge of WWE Creative

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Vince McMahon was personally and heavily involved with last night's episode of Monday Night Raw, PWInsider.com has confirmed with multiple sources.

PWInsider.com is told that about 15-20 minutes before Raw went live on the air, a number of late rewrites for the episode were ordered, described as not "feeling" like the type of changes talents and staff had come to expect under Paul Levesque. Changes for the episode continued as the show well into being on the air and we are told they came directly from McMahon, who had his own office at Raw, just as he did before his "retirement" in the summer of 2022.

While McMahon stated he would not be "in the weeds" of creative on CNBC yesterday, we were told by multiple sources who were at Raw that there was no doubt that Vince was firmly back in charge following the Endeavor acquisition of the company.

PWInsider.com is told the night started with Paul Levesque on headsets running Raw, but as the taping went on, it was McMahon who was more and more involved as the point person running the show. While McMahon was on headset producing a few times over Wrestlemania 39 weekend, he was at the gorilla position for most of last night's Raw taping, directly overseeing the proceedings.

Among some talents we spoke with, there was a huge negative shift in morale as they realized that things were going to go back to "exactly where they were" before Paul Levesque was placed in control as Chief Content Officer. One source said the "place felt nuked" but others didn't go that far. The feeling was that going forward, the likelihood was that McMahon would be overseeing everything again, leaving the creative once again to his whims and sensibilities, although whether that actually plays out remains to be seen.

A big part of that feeling of resignation was that Levesque is genuinely liked and trusted by the talents, especially since so many came through the WWE NXT system, and for some of them, that feeling of security many had felt in the run from Summerslam to Wrestlemania was no longer a given - and would be far departure from how some we spoke to felt tonight.

Other talents more or less shrugged it off, feeling they always suspected "all roads" would lead to McMahon being back in the central creative role eventually, but wanted to see if this would be a regular thing or whether it just happened last night because McMahon was at TV due to being in Los Angeles for Wrestlemania and the acquisition announcement.

One person joked WWE was always McMahon's world and now it's back in the palm of his hand after he willingly gave it up last summer.

The entire locker room should just fucking leave.

Well we had a few good months while it lasted

PepsiWithCoke posted...

PWInsider.com is told the night started with Paul Levesque on headsets running Raw, but as the taping went on, it was McMahon who was more and more involved as the point person running the show. While McMahon was on headset producing a few times over Wrestlemania 39 weekend, he was at the gorilla position for most of last night's Raw taping, directly overseeing the proceedings.

lmao the show began with Triple H saying nothing will change. I suppose he was overall correct.

Yeah, if Vince is insisting on mucking about with creative, then I'm done with WWE.

AEW will be the ONLY Pro Wrestling I will give a damn about.

Did anyone expect anything different?

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I was sick of Vince's booking before he left for his time off due to legal issues.

If he's going to come back, then I won't care anymore.

His booking SUCKS.

Kamen_Rider_Blade posted...

I was sick of Vince's booking before he left for his time off due to legal issues.

If he's going to come back, then I won't care anymore.

His booking SUCKS.

Tony Khan is awful as well. Constant start/stopping, everyone is in a faction, the list is endless.

Monolith1676 posted...

Tony Khan is awful as well. Constant start/stopping, everyone is in a faction, the list is endless.

It's still more entertaining than what Vince has booked for the past 2 decades.

And I'm fine with Factions in general.

Start / Stop can happen for various reasons, including IRL injuries.

So you need to take that into account.

Dirt sheets lol.

AEW isn't perfect, it has flaws, yes.

But IMO it's far more entertaining than the overproduced, meandering so-so slog that WWE has been for years. There was a chance the product was going to get better since Vince's retirement, but now that he's back, it won't change.