4 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Nov 24th)

2. Is Vince A Heel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpgqlGbRIzc Can someone answer that question? It€™s actually a serious one. Vince McMahon shows up on Raw out of the blue and adds a stipulation to a Survivor Series elimination match, putting his daughter and son-in-law€™s jobs on the line, then later ups the stips by saying only John Cena can return them to power. He keeps saying that he supports them and thinks they can do it, basically implying that this is some weird form of tough love or life lesson. So when they lose, he is pissed at them €“ rightly so €“ but then he tells them that they need to fix this somehow. Look, if you didn€™t want them to be out of power, then why did you do this? Putting the Authority out of power makes you a face in the fans€™ eyes, but then telling them they need to get their spot back would make you a bad guy. What was Vince€™s motivation for randomly putting their power on the line? If it€™s tough love, then it just doesn€™t make any sense. Worst of all, fans are going to get confused about whether they should like Vince or continue hating him as usual. If he€™s with the Authority, that€™s easy, boo. But if he€™s putting roadblocks in their path, then he€™s going to elicit some more cheers.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.