Vince McMahon recently 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 have 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. Fans had been excited for this week’s Monday Night RAW, as it marked the first show with Triple H as Head of Creative. The show was sold out from Madison Square Garden and will likely see an increase in the ratings. It was also the go-home edition of Raw for Saturday’s SummerSlam. However, it seems the ideas were not completely HHH’s.
Triple H was hardly involved for the show
WWE isn’t expected to make any major changes for now because they want to show stockholders the company is stable without McMahon in charge. While speaking on today’s Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted the show was largely written and approved last Thursday before McMahon left:
“This is probably not the show to judge anything by because this show was largely written before Vince left,” Meltzer said. “It was written a lot on Thursday…nobody ripped up anything. There are a few minor changes is what I was told. Essentially, this was the show that had been approved. They’re not making any big changes or anything like that just yet and of course, they’re going to SummerSlam with the ideas in mind. The interest in this show was gigantic, they sold out.”
WWE SummerSlam Premium Live Event is set to take place this Saturday, July 30. The card is stacked with some huge matches. We will have to see how the show pans out.
