On June 11, 2007, Monday Night Raw ended with Vince McMahon entering a limousine just prior to its explosion. Minutes later, WWE.com reported the angle with a "legitimate" air, proclaiming Vince McMahon as "presumed dead". WWE later acknowledged to CNBC that he was not truly dead, but rather Vince's "Mr. McMahon" character that had bit the bullet. In the cruelest of karmic twists, on June 25, 2007, Raw opened with a cold open and Vince/Mr. McMahon in the ring stating that he was very much alive, but that Chris Benoit, his wife and their son Daniel were dead. In one of those moments where real life is stranger than fiction, this was an incredibly bad decision.