When Vince McMahon left WWE last year amid a number of sexual misconduct allegations, wrestling fans were relieved to see the Chairman go.
While his contributions to the world of sports entertainment can't be overlooked, recent years have seen him lose touch with what fans want and WWE's quality had steadily declined as a result. When Triple H took over WWE Creative, however, the improvement was immediate and very noticeable.
Over the weekend, we told you that Vince - who later returned to facilitate WWE's sale - was responsible for making a series of massive changes to SmackDown shortly before it went off the air. That included scrapping three advertised matches with zero explanation.
Now, Dave Meltzer is reporting that there's a desire in the company to put an end to this
"He redid the entire show. I heard rumors...everyone's gotta be like treading on water because, I am sure, logic will tell you that there are many unhappy people and Paul Levesque has to be one of them. You go in there and you build these matches that were built up with promos. They've been promoted for a week. They did the angles last week and then just take them away like nothing."
"So it's gotta be frustrating for the writers. It's gotta be frustrating for Paul Levesque. They're trying to figure out a way to have him not do this. It would be a lot better if like you did it the day before or two days before, but he's doing it like the day of the show."
"It was, yeah, three matches advertised, all pulled, like hours before the show. So it was a lot of, a lot of frustration. It's Vince and I'm sure there's gonna be people who are going to try to figure out a way to ask him nicely, but it's Vince. He's gonna do what he's gonna do."
Whether anyone will convince Vince that he's actually damaging WWE by making changes like this on a whim is hard to say, but he's certainly not staying as hands-off with Creative as most people hoped.
There's said to be a lot of unhappiness within WWE right now given his interference, but whether Vince actually cares...well, we doubt it.