WOR Video: Vince McMahon is back

Vince McMahon is back.

Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio Tuesday morning confirmed McMahon returned to Raw on Monday to make changes. He was not backstage at the show, but both he and Triple H made last minute changes to the program.

“Vince McMahon is back,” Meltzer said. “He made multiple changes [to Raw] tonight, there were also multiple changes by [Paul] Levesque at the last minute. A lot of stuff wasn’t advertised, and the reason is they were changing all day long.”

Meltzer said the changes, according to people backstage, were described as “probably changes for the better, but there were many of them.”

McMahon’s return couldn’t have come at a better time, as the merger between UFC and WWE under the Endeavor umbrella begins on Tuesday. Although McMahon won’t own WWE anymore under this deal, he is still very much in charge of the direction of the wrestling aspect of the new company.

“When it comes to wrestling, Ari Emanuel is very willing to say I don’t know wrestling, [McMahon] knows wrestling.”

However, Emanuel, Mark Shapiro, and Nick Khan will be working on WWE’s next television deals. Meltzer said that while it is likely USA will retain Raw and NXT, SmackDown’s future is more uncertain, with Disney and Amazon both in the running while Fox may not be interested in the high price increase WWE wants for their content.