Reaction Zone - The Prodigal Son Returns------for now?

When I got to work this morning, I logged onto my office PC to check my e-mail on my Yahoo! account. One headline caught my eye, so after signing out of the e-mailbox, I went back to Yahoo's front page.

Mind blown.

Shane McMahon, who now looks more like he was separated at birth from actor Matt LeBlanc (ex-"Friends"), and looking in better condition than he was in 2009, made a startling, surprise return on Raw.

I know what some of you are thinking. Here we go again with the McMahon family's version of "Days of Our Lives". All that's needed now is Linda suddenly returning, and, well, the circle would be complete, wouldn't it?

I digress. Proving once again that his screws are off on camera, Vince promptly put Shane in what amounts to a no-win situation at Wrestlemania 32---Hell in a Cell vs. Undertaker.

I've said enough times that Vince McMahon is not the creative genius he once was, that his on-air persona belongs in a padded cell, etc., but if this isn't evidence enough that he's lost it, what would be? Shane's around the same age as Triple H (both are 46, though Hunter turns 47 in July). He comes back looking to take control of Raw, which Papa Screwloose thinks equates to taking the whole enchilada, so Pops puts the Prodigal Son in with the Dead Man.

What is wrong with this picture?

Being away from WWE since the end of '09, Shane has not a grudge with anyone on the roster. The feud with Legacy, which DX finished for him? A distant memory. Randy Orton is on the DL, though there've been teases he could return in time for Mania, and Cody Rhodes morphed into Stardust a couple of years ago, and proving to be 10 times as wacky in the role as brother Dustin has been as Goldust.

But......what if 'Taker is being set up to be screwed? To lose at the Show of Shows for the 2nd time in 3 years? Given who's involved here, well, stranger things have happened. By all rights, Undertaker should be facing another young gun, like a Braun Strowman, which would continue the story from last year, after 'Taker beat Bray Wyatt.

It all hinges now on the Dead Man.

I'd have him appear in the next week or two and say that he doesn't have an issue with Shane......but he does have one with Vince. There, you have the set up for a swerve and a major screwjob with Shane joining the family anew. Simple as that. The fact that I'm even discussing this now, six weeks before the big dance, tells you how predictable Vince can be these days.

For what it's worth, the McMahon won-loss record at Wrestlemania is not that good. Shane is 1-0 as a competitor (beat Vince at Wrestlemania 17 15 years ago), and 0-1 as a manager (he was in Big Show's corner at WM16). Vince is 0-Wrestlemania, whether it's been as a manager (0-2) or a wrestler (0-4). Shane hasn't wrestled in 6 1/2 years and change. And the first Hell in a Cell at Wrestlemania? I call it a trap.

How do you get yourself out of this creative pickle, Vince?


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