The AJ Styles addition to Raw last night was a Vince McMahon call, PWInsider.com has learned. Portions of Raw were reconfigured to include Styles appearing in the opening segment and teaming with Seth Rollins at McMahon's request. We are told pretty much the remainder of the show was the same as originally planned and that it was overall, an easy night in terms of creative, production and execution for the company.
A longtime Elite subscriber was flying out of NYC today to Canada and Trish Stratus was on his flight. He noted that Stratus was sporting the bruise that was seen on Raw, so that was a legitimate bruise, not makeup last night.
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