There are even more details coming out about the craziness backstage at the WWE Royal Rumble and many of the stories seem to include Shane McMahon.
Fightful backed up reports from this week saying that Vince McMahon made changes and nixed a lot of what Shane wanted to do.
It was also noted that, per several sources, Shane wanted to go out in a spot in the match that would highlight him, and one person mentioned that Shane pitched being in the number one spot. Shane ended up entering the ring towards the end of the match and Fightul notes that the numbers got mixed up and Shane got frustrated. Randy Orton reportedly told Shane that he wasn’t going out to “here comes the money” so Shane better get out to the ring.
This story is just the latest to come out this week about Shane that led to Vince making the call to pull him from future storylines.
As previously noted, Shane was set to wrestle Seth Rollins at WrestleMania and the plan was to set up that angle at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. Shane was pulled and Austin Theory was slotted in his place for the Chamber match. Other things reported this week: Shane pitched to wrestle Bobby Lashley at Mania and he also pitched to wrestle Theory. None of that is going to happen.
At this point, there is nothing planned for Shane at Mania or anytime in the near future and this could play out similar to his 2009 exit from the company that saw Shane being gone for years. This time, there are people who believe that Shane may never be back.
Perhaps on a related note, Randy Orton was supposed to be at Raw on Monday but there was no sign of him at the show. There is still no official word on why he was not there and it’s unclear if the backstage issues at the Royal Rumble played a part in his absence. Orton only lasted a couple of minutes in the Rumble, despite the fact that the show was in his hometown.
