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2. Is This A Vince McMahon Bit Now?

'The Exalted One' may well be a Vince McMahon parody character.

Last night's segment saw Brodie Lee sitting down for dinner with Alex Reynolds and John Silver. He gets props for his steak choices (medium-rare, by the looks of it), though this slightly worrying skit saw Lee talk about The Dark Order being lions who prey on sheep, before banishing Silver for daring to eat before Brodie was done with his own dinner. Then, Reynolds sneezed. He, too, was sent out of the ring in a clear dig at the WWE Chairman, who infamously hates sneezing.

Perhaps we're getting the wrong read here, but this felt very much like a rib on Vince. Let's hope this doesn't define the character. Lee is too talented a guy to be sucked into something like that and while he likely has a lot of pent-up frustration after leaving WWE, things like this feel small-time. We didn't not any more McMahon jabs after last week's "out-of-touch old man" line.