WWE Rumors: Vince McMahon unhappy with RAW Superstar's work, wanted to 're-train' him

As mentioned on the latest edition of WWE Backstage, Samoa Joe will be officially replacing Dio Maddin as the third voice on RAW's announce booth at least until Joe is fully recovered from his injury.

Reports had suggested that the company will not be bringing Maddin back as a commentator, and the Superstar would instead return to training in order to become an in-ring worker.

WrestlingNews.co has now reported that Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn were not happy with Dio Maddin's work as a commentator as per Bryan Alvarez of Wrestling Observer Live.

Here is what Alvarez had said:

I don’t know if Dio Maddin himself is gonna get mad but I’m sure we’ll hear that this is not accurate but this is what happened. Vince and Kevin Dunn didn’t like Dio Maddin on commentary and they took him off commentary and I think they were gonna try to re-train him or whatever to do commentary but now I guess he’s decided he wants to be a wrestler again.

I’m sure the official story is going to be that he just decided while doing commentary that he wanted to be a wrestler…

Dio Maddin had been brought in initially as a commentator on 205 Live and then moved to RAW. The 28-year old has been out of action ever since The Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar attacked him and F-5'd him on the announce table a few weeks back.

While it was initially believed that Maddin is out selling Lesnar's attack, it is clear now that he will not be coming back in the role of an announcer at all, and the former US Champion Samoa Joe will take his place instead.

Maddin also tweeted that he intends to retire Brock Lesnar when he makes his return as an in-ring Superstar.