8 Times WWE Hit The 'Reset' Button

5. 'You Are The Authority'

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Amidst the interminable run of 'Constable' Corbin as the chief decision maker of Raw, the programme's ratings slumped to a new nadir last December. Apparent 'rock bottom' had been hit just the week before, and excuse-couched concern now turned to blind panic.

After directly addressing the show's 'recent decline' through the conduit of Seth Rollins, WWE announced that Vince McMahon himself would make an increasingly rare appearance to "shake things up".

Corbin, as per the stipulation of the previous night's TLC, was summarily given the boot. His replacement? The whole McMahon clan, who promised to take a more hands-on approach across all the company's brands. Meanwhile, Triple H paradoxically promised that from now on, the audience was the authority - via the medium of the old, distinctly, well, authoritarian authority. Plus ça change...

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