6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Payback 2016

5. Cop-Out

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So after weeks of Shane McMahon running Raw and wondering when his luck would run out, we learned last week that Vince McMahon would decide at Payback between Shane and Stephanie McMahon.

Who did Vince choose? D) All of the above.

No, seriously. Vince decided to pit his two children against each other as 50/50 general managers of Monday Night Raw because €“ as he said it €“ he wants blood, he wants Stephanie and Shane to slit each other€™s throats and disembowel each other. (Those are Vince€™s words.)

As fans, we all suffered through that segment to learn that we€™ll just have two competing authority figures, which isn€™t unlike what happened years ago when Eric Bischoff was GM and €œStone Cold€ Steve Austin was the €œsheriff€ of Raw.

Maybe, just maybe, this will be entertaining, but odds are that this will grate on everyone€™s nerves. One perfect example of why could be seen in this segment

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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.