#5. Hope isn't true: Why Shane McMahon might be unhappy with WWE
RAW Underground has been a unique concept introduced by WWE on RAW over the last few weeks, with Shane McMahon returning to WWE TV for the first time in 9-10 months to have an "underground worked-shoot" style of competition.
It's worked well, although there haven't been too many big names on the show. Recently, RAW Underground suffered some big cuts since it was pre-taped and Shane McMahon was unhappy with WWE about it, according to Tom Colohue on the latest episode of Dropkick DiSKussions:
"RAW Underground is all pre-taped. That suffered major cuts too. Shane McMahon really wasn't happy about that, but he is at the mercy of the editors at the moment because when it comes to live things, you look at, for example, the Lana and Natalya vs. Mickie James segment. Mickie James has been rewritten every week since she's returned, and she's gotten less and less of a role each time."
Tom Colohue said that Shane McMahon understood the reasoning behind it:
Shane wasn't happy, but he understood. And honestly, for me, I don't think it was a bad show, but there was certainly something that worked against itself, and the chaos and the hectic nature isn't always the right move like Vince often thinks it is."
We hope the cuts and Shane McMahon being unhappy aren't true because it would be a shame for there to be any sort of conflict this early on.