5 reasons why Vince McMahon is reportedly "stopping" scripted promos

#3. An overall change in direction

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With Paul Heyman and Eric Bischoff being hired, the objective was to reduce Vince McMahon's workload - something that seems to be happening on the RAW side of things, atleast.

It's not surprising to see McMahon still in control of SmackDown like before because it's currently a very fragile time for the brand. They're just about a month away before the FOX deal finally kicks in and they have to start afresh from there.

Overall, the biggest positive about this period of time is that there seems to be a genuine effort for change in the product. This new direction that they're taking is a very important one, but what many people need to realize is that these kinds of huge changes take time.

Granted, we're not expecting everything to change in a matter of weeks, but it's going to take months or even over a year before we fully see change of sorts being implemented regularly. This overall change in direction has probably brought about a few new approaches and some old ones that need to be brought back.

One of those old ones happens to be the style of cutting promos and the non-scripted nature of it.