Still chewing on both nights. Night 1 was perfectly booked and Night 2 was such a let down. Vince and his F*** You Money made its way back into the product after a brief "retirement." Probably why we're seeing all those talen acquisitions/re-acquisitions last fall just drop like flies in the storyline end of things.
And I think we know why:
The executives had the Endeavor merger already in the bag prior to this weekend and night 2 felt like Vince was back in charge with his booking—because he was. Cody was overbooked to the moon and for this to be the outcome doesn't make sense and is indicative of Vince having his hands back onto the creative end.
Even in the CNBC interview this morning, he said he wasn't going to be "in the weeds," which was his EXACT quote in 2019 when he appointed Bischoff and Heyman as creative heads. It was still Vince shredding the scripts at the last minute.
With the Endeavor merger, we're going to see more crossover with stars like Conor McGregor being involved, but it's still going to be these stale championship pushes until Vince is dead.
With last night's logic, Stone Cold would have lost to Michaels at WM 14, and Bryan would have lost at WM 30. I really think it was done to keep an established face of the company at the top of the card due to the merger. Hopefully they can right the ship on this storyline, but that's a tough task even without Vince involved—which he is now, no question.