WWE management saw some major changes after Vince McMahon announced his retirement from his roles as Chairman and CEO of WWE. It was later clarified that he was also done with his work on creative. Some reports emerged regarding his backstage performance as well. It was revealed that Stephanie McMahon and Nick Khan will serve as Co-CEOs of WWE, while Triple H is EVP of Talent Relations and Head of Creative. The fans were thrilled when news broke in July that Monday Night RAW would soon be switching to a TV-14 rating. The show has been rated TV-PG since 2008. However, that did not take place.
Stephanie McMahon seemingly nixed the plans
Dave Meltzer recently discussed WWE’s decision of not moving to TV-14 content any time soon on Wrestling Observer Radio. Meltzer revealed that it’s the new regime and that could be Stephanie instead of Vince. Stephanie McMahon might have felt that since things are going up, they don’t need to change anything.
WWE is doing better than AEW at the moment and things are not looking down for them. They are not seeing any decline that needs to be reversed with new ideas. It was noted:
That’s not gonna happen now yet. That was one of the new things. Andrew knows the whole story but there were memos and everything. I mean it was planned. And I think it’s the new regime and that could be Stephanie instead of Vince. You know Vince maybe was considering it. Stephanie’s thing is you know we don’t need it. And they don’t. Before when things were down, things were declining, you kind of go what can we do to reverse the decline.
When things are going up and haven’t done it, you don’t have to go like, ‘Hey, you know, we got to come up with some ideas to make things go up. And they’re doing swearing so maybe we got to do that one now. AEW is not going up and we are going up.’ So why do we need to fight them on their own. To do what they did, that stopped working. The trajectory of everything, it’s kind of like… Yeah, that’s probably a decision we shouldn’t make right now. So they didn’t. I actually congratulate them for reversing course based on analyzing what’s happened in the last four months.”
We will have to wait and see if Steph changes any plans.
