Backstage news on several scrapped angles from WWE RAW
There were multiple changes on WWE RAW last night, thanks to Vince McMahon.
Over the last eight months of the Triple H creative regime, plans have been solidified almost a day in advance for RAW and SmackDown. However, with Mr. McMahon backstage last night, all of that changed.
According to Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp (via Fightful Select), with Vince McMahon running things from the gorilla position last night, there were changes made "well into the show," along with multiple new run sheets being passed along throughout the broadcast.
The opening match between Omos and Elias wasn't initially planned for the show, but McMahon added it. This caused quite the scramble backstage as Omos was in catering at the time and wasn't in his gear to compete when he got the news that he'd be wrestling.
There were also last-minute shoots added by McMahon that left the talent scrambling in order to get them done in time to air on the show.
Vince McMahon's involvement caused multiple changes on WWE RAW
The "last-minute, sweeping" changes that Vince McMahon made on WWE RAW ended up frustrating multiple people on the roster. Not even so much for the fact that these changes were "creatively poor," but how it was handled came as a "depressing blow" to those previously released by McMahon.
There were also multiple backstage segments planned for last night's show that never ended up happening, including Cody Rhodes speaking to someone on the phone and a LWO segment with Bad Bunny.
This was on top of canceling two women's triple threat matches to help determine the next contender for the RAW Women's Championship in favor of a women's tag team match to crown the next contender for the Women's Tag Titles instead.
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