6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (July 25)

2. ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’

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Who had “three days” in the pool for going from “Thank you Vince!” to turning the deposed CEO into a punchline?

You couldn’t have predicted that this would have happened, but Roman Reigns buried Vince in a manner of speaking Monday night on Raw. While giving Theory the business, Reigns told the young upstart to look around and analyze the situation: “Your daddy’s not here anymore.” He continue to declare this was his ring, while the fans taunted Theory. Of course, Vince in storyline was Theory’s mentor, which gave the rookie a leg up with a direct line to Mr. McMahon.

Roman then took another veiled jab at Vince, saying, “I run the Garden now!” Madison Square Garden is WWE’s unofficial home arena, and Vince has been the head of WWE for 40 years, so this statement, while in-character, carried some extra significance.

It was unusual, as this came just days after Stephanie McMahon led fans in a thank you chant for Vince on SmackDown.

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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.