Going into this week’s WWE SmackDown, there had been a lot of speculation about whether Vince McMahon would show up and make changes to creative in addition to running the show as he did at Raw earlier in the week.
This reportedly led to talent morale taking a major hit as it seemed like things were going back to normal before McMahon resigned due to the hush money scandal and Triple H taking over creative last summer.
As previously reported, McMahon was not at Friday Night SmackDown this week.
Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select reported that the talent morale was significantly improved without McMahon at SmackDown, but a lot of it is a “we’ll see what happens” approach among talent.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted nobody knows when McMahon will show up to events and run things like he did this past week at Raw.
“So SmackDown, Vince was not in Portland, but he was working remote. They did not change a lot. There were things that were changed, but it wasn’t anything that was major and whatever that means. Vince is involved. He’s definitely involved and as far as how often he’s going to go [to shows], nobody knows. Nobody knows. He’s going to show up when he wants to show up. He’s going to do what he wants to do and that’s the deal,” Meltzer stated.
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