10 Unfinished WWE Storylines That Remain A Mystery
7. The McMahon Lockbox
Nothing about Shane McMahon’s ascent to the position of SmackDown’s Commissioner makes sense. It started prior to this year’s WrestleMania, but didn’t start going off the rails until shortly after.
Shane made a headline-topping return to Monday Night Raw and demanded that his father Vince let him run WWE’s flagship show. Shane’s trump card was a secretive lockbox that he’d apparently held onto for years, and if the contents were revealed to the world, some of Vince’s deepest, darkest secrets would be exposed and the Chairman would be besmirched.
Seemingly worried about the box’s contents, Vince made a compromise: defeat an opponent of my choosing at WrestleMania and you can run Raw, but the lockbox must go unopened. Shane was defeated by The Undertaker but rather bizarrely given an authority figure role in spite of that fact, but what happened to the lockbox of secrets?
Nothing, apparently.
Shane’s loss meant that it was never likely to be opened anyway, but WWE seemingly buried it without as much as a post-WrestleMania mention. The lockbox was a vital storytelling device when it came to booking Shane in the match (and his current role) in the first place, yet it was completely cast aside during the angle’s illogical conclusion.
When you play up the contents as something so important that Vince was willing to put control of his top TV show on the line, you have to pay it off, but WWE completely failed to do so.