It’s been five months since Vince McMahon stepped down from WWE. That seems like a short period of time, but in the world of professional wrestling that’s an eternity. In that time, WWE’s programming has remained largely unchanged with only some minor, occasional adjustments. For example, NXT 2.0 is back to being “black and gold” NXT. RAW has a vignette that plays before the show starts. The opening segment of each production isn’t a guaranteed "promo train” with one superstar interrupting the next until, inevitably, an impromptu match is booked. Sometimes RAW or SmackDown will open to a brawl already in progress or a match about to begin, welcome deviations from the fifteen minute monologue norm.
But nothing substantive, or ideological, has clearly changed.
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