10 Most Infuriating Stephanie McMahon Moments

2. 'Our Film Division Is Awful, Too'

Stephanie McMahon slaps Roman Reigns
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OK, she didn't really say that.

But she might as well have during last week's edition of RAW. As The Miz made his return to WWE, he in a diva-like strop questioned the whereabouts of the red carpet he was expecting to see laid out before him. Stephanie quite rightly pointed out that he had been driven to the arena in a limousine, before Miz decided this wasn't enough - his film, The Marine: Battleground, was purportedly generating award season buzz. It's entirely the wrong time of year for that, but nevermind.

An incredulous Steph then chastised Miz, reminding him that red carpets were only unfurled for 'actual theatrical premieres', absolutely burying WWE Studios in the process. Everybody knows that their films are of the straight-to-video variety, and it was probably more insulting when WWE pretended otherwise - but that's still no excuse for the put-down.

It's unfathomable - do they not want their fans to watch them? They are the only demographic who'd bother. Is that what happened there? Are they trying to subtly destroy the film division, a Vince pet project, from the inside as part of an ownership coup? It comes to something when the most wildly speculative and wholly irrational explanation is the most logical.

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