Shane McMahon Returns

I have said for a while that the WWE needed to create more big storylines. They weren't doing it with Bray Wyatt. They weren't doing it with AJ Styles. They finally did something big last night on Raw.

Shane McMahon returned to Raw to confront his father and sister. He is a face. He brought up the issues the WWE is facing. And he now wants to run Raw. Vince McMahon is giving him that opportunity. All Shane has to do is defeat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania. To make it even more interesting, it will be inside Hell in a Cell.

This is obviously not a match fans expected to see for The Undertaker in the final years of his career. But it is part of a huge storyline. You might also scratch your head at the willingness of The Undertaker, a face, to do the dirty work of Vince McMahon, a heel. We'll just have to see how that plays out. With such a thin roster, Taker might have ended up continuing his feud with The Wyatts. That would just have been dull.

People have said that The Authority is stale. They get blamed for low ratings. Will a change really help things? There are other issues, like the thin roster and sloppy storylines. But it might be refreshing for something different to happen.

This felt like the first big Raw in a long while. It started out in a big way. It will be interesting to see how ratings do for last night and next week. Raw will probably not jump back up to a 4.0, but you would expect it to do very good. If not, the WWE really has no easy answers left. What stunt can they come up with to help their numbers? The only answer is to push talent better and come up with more intriguing storylines for them. Part-timers aren't carrying the WWE to new heights.