Why WWE Has Finally Fixed THIS Historic Flaw

Vince McMahon
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Is there a power struggle at the dark heart of WWE in the post-WrestleMania fog of 2023?

Realistically probably not, and certainly not in the way the bulk of fans might appreciate. There's no struggle, nor is there any doubt. The old guard is very much the new one per Endeavour's purchase of WWE and the impending merger with UFC. It mattered not that Vince McMahon resigned in disgrace in July 2022, only that he forcibly returned in 2023 to drive through a sale that has put him back in his (new) Titan Tower corner office. The Power Is Back, alright - back in McMahon's hands, and there's very little that Triple H as mere Head Of Creative can do about it. And proof of that was laid bare on the April 3rd edition of Monday Night Raw.

The Executive Chairman of the newly-merged company was back in his old seat in Gorilla, and that was just part of the whirlwind of news and drama that engulfed the organisation seemingly seconds after the rubber chicken hit Cody Rhodes in SoFi Stadium.

As stories about the sale continued to trickle through, so too did the realisation that the 77-year-old could do whatever he pleased again, regardless of how effectively 'The Game' might have been steering the ship in his absence. Amidst fan bargaining that he was only there because it was part of the WWE-in-LA weekend, the startlingly useless events on television felt as though they were mirroring the cold reality behind-the-scenes.

The only thing as dumb as the new moustache McMahon was sporting was the godawful Raw he oversaw...

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