10 Things That Will Happen When Vince McMahon Returns To WWE
WWE's WrestleMania 39 season could look VERY different with Vince McMahon at the helm.
Just when you thought there was "no chance in hell", eh?
Vince McMahon is reportedly returning to WWE, and that could spell disaster for anybody who has enjoyed Triple H's version of the company since he assumed control of all creative in July 2022. Back then, amidst reports of (still ongoing) sexual misconduct claims, Vince formally retired with a quick tweet.
Now, less than six months on from that in January 2023, he's apparently back in the saddle and wants to personally oversee a sale of the empire he built into a monster from the mid-1980s onwards. Understandably, countless fans are already blowing up social media with conversation about what this will mean for the actual on-screen product.
Will it change? Of course it'll change. There's no way McMahon is coming back to sit there passively with a smile on his face as everyone else runs around daft cobbling together the latest episode of Raw. He's too much of a micro-manager for that, so WWE's Royal Rumble-WrestleMania 39 quarter could look very different under his watch.
Here are some predictions about what'll happen now Vinnie Mac is back.
10. Some Audience Goodwill Will Vanish
Few like change, but WWE’s creative department sorely needed it when McMahon retired in July 2022. Creatively, the product was in the toilet - Raw was a miserable three-hour excuse for a wrestling program, and SmackDown's quality scale flitted between bang average and high with an alarming erraticism.
Triple H's offerings have restored some faith for those tired of McMahon's style of booking. Whilst not everything has been perfect (it was still early days), bringing Vince back into the fold so quickly will leave a sour taste in the mouths of many. It'll also reveal the latter half of last year as a manufactured experiment designed to trick them into thinking things had really changed.
Balls.
Audience goodwill was on a shaky peg pre-Vince retirement, and it'll return to those low levels now he's back. Is absolutely everything McMahon presents abhorrent? No, of course not, but the twin pack of this backwards corporate step and the PR nightmare of his personal misconduct charges will turn some off.