Vince McMahon made a return to WWE television last year after over a year. It was to help elevate Roman Reigns and his Wrestlemania push. He frequently started appearing thereafter, and his program for Wrestlemania was creating animosity between Shane McMahon and The Undertaker for their Hell in a Cell match. The given stipulation for the match was that if Shane won, he would take control of Monday Night Raw. However, he lost, but despite that, he got control for the next 4 weeks of Raw anyway.
At Payback, Vince McMahon appeared again after just short of a month and announced that both Shane and Stephanie McMahon would be in control of Raw. His next appearance wouldn’t be until the Raw before the draft, where he announced that Shane McMahon would the commissioner of Smackdown Live, whereas Stephanie would be the commissioner of Raw. After that, he has not appeared on-screen.
Vince McMahon has not been backstage the past two weeks. Nobody seems to have an answer as to why, but it is being said that he is also not expected backstage next week either and won’t be there until SummerSlam. This indicates, Vince could very well be back on TV at the biggest pay-per-view of the summer.
He is in communication with everyone and the last two weeks was on the phone during the production meeting and micro-managed every single detail of Raw and Smackdown all day long before they went live.
It was reported back in late June that Vince also missed the June 20th RAW and June 21st SmackDown tapings. It is quite surprising, as Vince is generally present in every taping and micro manages everything that happens live as well, even infamously being on the commentator’s ears telling them what to say and what not to say.
This has been something the fans have blamed for bad quality commentary on Raw, whereas Smackdown has had far more freedom in its commentary team, led by Mauro Ranallo.
It is unlikely that Vince McMahon will appear on WWE television anytime soon, as there is simply no storyline that calls for it. As it is, there are 4 authority figures between the two shows. In fact, many are in the belief that even the commissioner’s appearing on their show on a weekly basis is not a necessity due to the presence of the General Managers. It is highly possible that appearances by Shane and Stephanie wind down as well so they can give more focus to their backstage roles.
