Lance Storm says WWE referencing Vince McMahon on RAW is in bad taste and completely unacceptable.
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Live, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Lance Storm noted that he stopped watching this week’s episode of RAW after Cody Rhodes mentioned Vince McMahon during the opening segment. He believes it’s in bad taste and questioned why the promotion is referencing him on television after Janel Grant’s allegation and subsequent lawsuit.
“In today’s day and age, I can’t believe we are using Vince McMahon in a storyline and being told you are not Vince McMahon being taken as an insult,” the former WWE star began. “I’m sorry, I stopped watching when the initial Janel Grant case came out. I gave them a break when he, I’m doing airquotes here, ‘retired and left.’ When they brought him back, I said, ‘I’m not watching.’ Now he’s part of a storyline, and I just find it incredibly, what’s the word? In bad taste.
Lance Storm is also not a fan of a WWE NXT storyline
Speaking further, Lance Storm also noted that he wasn’t a fan of an NXT storyline that saw Shiloh Hill using geotracking to help Tatum Paxley find Blake Monroe’s whereabouts. He asked how WWE could be so clueless to do such an angle after several female superstars faced real-life stalking situations.
“Furthermore, I was listening to you (Bryan Alvarez) and someone else review NXT, and they actually did an angle where a babyface wanted to track down another female talent, and she used a hacker to use geo tracking to track her down in her hotel and attack her. This company has had female talent stalked.
“Sonya Deville had a stalker break into her house and try to abduct her. I think Liv Morgan has had a stalker try to break into her house. There was the stalker at the PC. How can a company be this clueless when it comes to appearing like they care about female talent?
“A babyface stalked and NXT talent to her hotel and broke in. Unacceptable! How that gets past any kind of quality control, I don’t know. How you use Vince McMahon’s name on WWE programming in light of everything he has been accused of is just baffling to me. I was not going to watch the rest of the show. I just find that completely unacceptable, and I’m not supporting it,” Storm said.
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