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#3. Shane McMahon came up with the RAW Underground concept in WWE

Tom Colohue had reported on a recent edition of Sportskeeda's Dropkick DiSKussions podcast that RAW Underground was entirely Shane McMahon's idea.

Tom also spoke about Shane McMahon's growing influence backstage in WWE and how people behind the scenes are quite pleased with his creative inputs.

"It was entirely Shane's idea, and I wouldn't be too surprised to see him step into that ring sooner rather than later. Honestly, people in the WWE are really quite high on some of Shane's ideas recently, including back in the Best of the World tournament and the Royal Rumble this year where he was heavily involved in the booking. WWE has lost a lot of writing talent recently, so they have been leaning on wrestlers like Bryan, like Edge and the bosses, the McMahon family as well, even though, for example, Stephanie McMahon isn't there and isn't involved in anything. Shane's been very vocal."

Tom Colohue's report was pretty much confirmed by MVP during the former United States Champion's interview with Newsweek. The leader of the Hurt Business revealed that it was Shane McMahon who explained the RAW Underground concept to him.

"It was a shock for us, too. Shane McMahon explained to us the concept of what they wanted to do and I thought, "Wow, that's pretty cool," and you know, we're all competitive athletes in combat sports so it was like, "Yeah, OK, that's right up our alley."

The fans have witnessed two editions of RAW Underground thus far and it's still too early to make a judgement regarding the success of Shane McMahon's unique project.