Vince McMahon has ‘quietly let go’ his own son, Shane McMahon, from WWE after Royal Rumble chaos

If reports are to be believed, the last five days have been a rollercoaster for Shane McMahon.

The son of the WWE chairman, Vince McMahon, made his return for the first time since WrestleMania 37, entering the 2022 Men’s Royal Rumble match at number 28 - and he lasted until the final three.

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McMahon has been known to help write the Rumbles over the past few years and he was influential alongside Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar in creating the acclaimed 2020 Rumble, but this year’s edition was widely criticised by fans.

It turns out Shane might be largely to blame. The 52 year old reportedly had a lot of heat on backstage following the Rumble. A lot of ideas were changed throughout the day and left many performers not knowing what they were doing or who they were eliminating as their number was called. 

Dave Meltzer said he has received a lot of off-handed remarks about Shane since the Rumble and Fightful also reported that talents were frustrated with how poorly organised the whole match was. Add to that McMahon’s prominence in the match and it’s not a good cocktail.

Shane McMahon was supposed to be part of the upcoming Elimination Chamber match, which was first reported .

Bobby Lashley will defend the WWE Championship in this match in Saudi Arabia later this month and the premise for Shane’s involvement was to set up a storyline between him and Seth Rollins that would lead to WrestleMania 38.

Even more perplexing, McMahon was supposed to battle Rollins over the WWE Championship.

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Ringside News – which has had several backstage reports recently confirmed by the likes of Fightful and Meltzer – is reporting that Shane McMahon has been ‘quietly let go’ from the company and Vince had used the term ‘let go’ himself.

A tenured member of the WWE creative team told Ringside News that the writers were told in a ‘semi-quiet way’ that there will be no more creative discussions about Shane McMahon, and they have now moved on to other creative discussions.

Wade Keller of PW Torch has provided details of exactly what happened between Shane and Vince McMahon:

“Things really unraveled with him and his dad on Saturday,” Keller said. “Things were not good, according to what I heard.”

Keller continued, “If you’ve been listening carefully to me in the last month or two, you would have gotten the impression there was little chance Shane would have been at the Royal Rumble this weekend, or in WWE’s plans.

"I was pretty surprised when he showed up and then there were reports that he was going to be in a storyline that would weave itself all the way to Wrestlemania because of what I’ve been hearing about Shane’s status in the company, and his relationship with his dad in particular.”

Keller said, “This was almost a last straw for a lot of people in WWE when it comes to Shane [and] his dad, of course, being the final decision maker on that front. So the story is for the third year in a row he was brought in to help produce the Royal Rumble.

"It’s sort of a dad doing a favour to his son…Shane’s creative ideas over the decades have been laughed at behind his back. I’ve reported that for decades. He was never seen as having a good creative wrestling mind. That has carried over even into his 50s when trying to help produce the Royal Rumble.

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“This was an … unexpected, sharp increase in disruptiveness in bad ideas on Saturday,” Keller said. “From what I’m told directly from people there, he was really self-centered. It was all about him [and] his ideas, and he didn’t get caught up on what the plans were for the match.

"He didn’t know was going on TV that was building to certain moments. And he just pulled the McMahon card with the match producers wanting things to be done his way because why else would Shane-O-Mac be brought in, if not to basically dictate something, a major chapter involving him in the match. And so he did.

"And it got to the point where there were heated arguments with people who felt that they could push back and a lot of stress and strife and distractions with everybody else because it was just chaos.

"There was a plan for the match. Shane was pushing back against producers who were simply trying to follow through on what Vince McMahon told them should be done in the match. And Shane just went way overboard.

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"If you look at the people that Shane was fighting in the ring during the Rumble, that was his doing. That’s who he wanted to be in the ring with looking good against.

“So when it came time to put someone over, Shane was willing to put over Brock Lesnar,” Keller said. “But the issue with Shane really got to the next level with Vince when it came to what was planned for Raw and that Shane had real problems with how he was going to be framed as he was going to be in the Elimination Chamber.

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"And so, Shane disagreed with what Vince wanted to do and how he wanted to do it. It was laid out to Shane what the plans were and he did like it, and he pushed back and that led to Vince just finally having enough and canceling all plans with Shane, everything that they have planned with him,” Keller finished.

McMahon went from competing in the Elimination Chamber and a championship match at WrestleMania to ‘quietly’ gone from the company in the space of a few days, all seemingly stemming from how poorly he handled laying out the Men’s Royal Rumble match.

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