5 Best & 5 Worst Moments From WWE Raw's 3 Hour Era
7. WORST: Age Concern
Stephanie McMahon and Triple H returned to Raw as permanent authority figures in the summer of 2013 after 'The Game's SummerSlam swerve-turn on new WWE Champion Daniel Bryan.
Assuming positions as despicable malevolent in the clichéd vein of just about every boss the company ever booked, the duo's modus operandi was oppressing the former champion so aggressively that he'd never get near the title again. A great thread, considering how the story would climax at WrestleMania 30, but not really, considering that was never the planned route.
Thus, virtually all of the bullish persecution was done just to establish them as the baddies, despite the fact huge swathes of the audience had already despised both for the better part of a decade.
In an attempt to turn their targets against one another, they attempted to manipulate The Big Show into using his almighty right fist to cave the 'Yes Man's beard in. Reducing him to tears almost weekly in sh*t-itchingly uncomfortable scenes after exposing to the world his apparent financial ruin (and thus his need to keep his job), Stephanie McMahon went one further in an insane ramble one week, referring to show as 'My Giant' thanks to the years he apparently mentored her backstage at live events when she was 12 years old.
The Big Show is five years older than Stephanie McMahon, and at 17, he was not following WWE around the country doling out worldly wisdom to the bosses daughter. The lowest point of an abysmal angle.