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Former WWE star says he stopped watching RAW after Stephanie McMahon’s segment with Cody Rhodes

Aaron Rift

While speaking on Wrestling Observer Live, former WWE star Lance Storm noted that he stopped watching the March 30th 2026 edition of RAW after Stephanie McMahon’s promo with Cody Rhodes. Cody said the following to Stephanie at the end of the segment…

“You want to bring up fathers? I’m not mine, you’re right. Stephanie McMahon, with all due respect, you’re not yours either.”

Here is what Storm though about the line…

“In today’s day and age, I can’t believe we are using Vince McMahon in a storyline and having ‘you are not Vince McMahon’ be taken as an insult. I’m sorry—I stopped watching when the initial Janel Grant case came out. I gave them a break when he ‘retired’ and left. When they brought him back, I said, ‘I’m not watching.’ And now he’s part of a storyline. I just find it incredibly… what’s the word? In bad taste.

And furthermore, I was listening to you and someone else review NXT, and they actually did an angle where a babyface wanted to track down another female talent and used a hacker—used 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 a stalker at the Performance Center.

How can a company be this clueless when it comes to appearing like they care about female talent? A babyface stalked an 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.”

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