WWE Chairman Vince McMahon’s son Shane McMahon was absent from WWE television after his mediocre feud with Braun Strowman last year. Shane McMahon made his shocking return during the Men’s Royal Rumble match this year where fans were not happy with him going toe to toe with established WWE Superstars such as ‘The Original Bro’ Matt Riddle. His performance also irked WWE Superstars backstage on top of that as well. This was due to the speculative rumor that Shane McMahon wanted to book the entire WWE Men’s Royal Rumble match around himself, thus causing an entire rewrite before the show going on-air. Shane McMahon’s WWE firing conspiracy was also revealed.
As previously reported by Ringside News, Shane McMahon was supposed to be on a previous week’s episode of Monday Night RAW. It was not revealed why Shane McMahon was absent, but plans for him have changed. In an update from the site, it was previously revealed that WWE had fired Shane McMahon after all the heat he got after producing the Men’s Royal Rumble match.
It was also reported that the company had big plans for Shane McMahon for the WWE Elimination Chamber Premium Live Event on February 19th in Saudi Arabia. Top Dolla spoke to Fightful Pro Wrestling & MMA Podcast, where he talked about WWE’s plans for him. Dolla revealed that he was considered to host RAW Underground.
“The true story about that is Edge calls me and he goes, ‘Send me some promos’, and I’m like, ‘All right.’ Edge is a really good guy and he’s always looking to help out. I send like two or three promos.
He doesn’t get back to me until the next day. I’m on the road doing ‘Most Wanted Treasures’ at this point. So he’s like, ‘Yeah, you know, we were in a meeting with Vince and other people. They were talking about who’s going to host RAW Underground and I thought you would be the perfect host for it. They actually were going to run with you as the host, but you’re on the road doing Most Wanted Treasures, and that’s going to take up too much of your schedule to do RAW Underground.’
So that’s when Shane came out as the host.”
