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VINCE MCMAHON FIRMLY BACK IN CHARGE AT LAST NIGHT'S RAW | PWInsider.com

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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.
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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.

More as we confirm.
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Annnd there it is. I f***ing knew that night 2 finish stunk too much.
 
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The only thing that amuses me in this whole thing is the idea of Vince being higher on the pecking order than Dana White.

Knowing how much of an egotistical shitter the latter is that must drive him absolutely nuts.
 
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Cody gets the piss beat of him by Brock the first match....comes to the ring pretends he is retiring leaves his boots in the ring as he walks away only to come back 2 weeks later different now...gets his win over Brock not actually changing at all other then a bit of hair dye.

Also supposedly people at the arena are saying during the break while Seth was in the ring he was holding a mic and at a certain point was pulled over by producers and looked not happy and threw the mic after the chat. Then he obviously just walked off after they went live again.
 
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Yeah, I’d say anyone with even half a clue knew that VKM had his hands all over Raw last night. It was absolutely terrible.

I haven’t been a full-time viewer in years. They usually rope me back in around RR-WM, and then the post-WM Raw while it doesn’t give you all the answers it usually gives you a pretty solid idea as to what you can expect over the next few months. If last night was a sign of things to come, I’m already out again in record time.

The talent must be thrilled. THRILLED I tell you.
 
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Cody gets the piss beat of him by Brock the first match....comes to the ring pretends he is retiring leaves his boots in the ring as he walks away only to come back 2 weeks later different now...gets his win over Brock not actually changing at all other then a bit of hair dye.

Also supposedly people at the arena are saying during the break while Seth was in the ring he was holding a mic and at a certain point was pulled over by producers and looked not happy and threw the mic after the chat. Then he obviously just walked off after they went live again.
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That Seth segment by far was the weirdest shit I've seen in a while.

He's relatively hot, comes out to cheers, serenades the crowd as he does and just...leaves. I'm sure he sees all the work he put into his gimmick evaporating and thus the outburst.

Seth is no stooge. If you believe the sheets he nearly came to blows with Vince over the HIAC 19 main event because of how bad it made him look.
 
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That Seth segment by far was the weirdest shit I've seen in a while.

He's relatively hot, comes out to cheers, serenades the crowd as he does and just...leaves. I'm sure he sees all the work he put into his gimmick evaporating and thus the outburst.

Seth is no stooge. If you believe the sheets he nearly came to blows with Vince over the HIAC 19 main event because of how bad it made him look.
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I'm probably in the minority but I'm already tired of his crowd singing routine.
 
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Brock/Cody is a good call and should work. The rest was a mess. HHH was far from perfect - the booking of the women has been a mess - but that was the Vinciest RAW that ever Vinced for quite some time. ~8 months away, I suspect Vince is going to be a right prick for the next little while and show the world Vinny's back at the wheel.
 
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