McMahon Becomes Raw, Once Again: Bought Monday Nights Back From Trump

McMahon Becomes Raw, Once Again: Bought Monday Nights Back From Trump


For my second article for CamelClutchBlog.com last week, I wrote about how I was excited on Donald Trump buying out Monday Nights from Vince McMahon. Well, it only lasted seven days. Storyline wise.

When McMahon offered to Trump Monday to buy back Raw “twice for what he sold it for.” Personally, I wished they would drug this storyline out longer, with McMahon trying to “find Trump’s price” on buying back Raw (sounds a little like the storyline they had for the “Million Dollar Man,” eh?). Trump last night did mention WrestleMania XXVI. I would of enjoyed seeing him around until then, but I think the storyline would of went south way before then. I would have enjoyed seeing a feud between McMahon and Trump…

Here’s what I would have done with this feud. Trump having full control of Monday Night Raw, McMahon being angry about it, bringing in Paul Heyman to run ECW every Tuesday night’s on the SciFi network, and McMahon running Friday Night Smackdown. With Heyman running ECW for McMahon, the two shows would help each other out, having superstars from both Tuesday and Friday nights going back and forth. Come SummerSlam, McMahon/Heyman try to out shine Trump with whose SummerSlam main event is hotter. Trump would get the last laugh that night, enraging McMahon. The feud would last to Survivor Series, were Trump’s Monday Night Raw team would eventually be defeated by McMahon’s team of ECW guys and Smackdown guys, which would signal that Trump would have to sell Monday Night’s back to McMahon.

That’s what I would have loved to watch. Bring back the “competition” that the wrestling business needs badly, which is why I got excited last week after the news. I was hoping that McMahon would have brought this storyline out through the summer, at least, to help bring in more ratings. But that didn’t happen. It was nice, though, having him in even for a night, for him being “the reason” by Raw went commercial free this week.

And I was happy to see to see Trump on Raw, where one segment McMahon was being booed out of the arena for him being his typical “Mr. McMahon” character and the next segment with Randy Orton, McMahon was cheered, all within about three minutes.

At least with this storyline of Trump “buying out” Monday Nights, it gives us something to talk about, and history for us to scratch our heads and wonder, wonder why McMahon even let this storyline go.