Monday night was all about Daniel Bryan in the WWE, but the company has forced people to focus elsewhere.
Bryan announced his retirement from active competition due to suffering several concussions in his career and had an emotional farewell during Monday Night RAW this week.
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During the segment, Titus O'Neil apparently grabbed Vince McMahon in a "physical, playful" manner, leading to the WWE handing him a suspension that could last up to 90 days, according to PWInsider.
This is a minor incident that likely no one in the audience thought twice about until the WWE revealed the suspension. Not only is the punishment way too harsh considering the minor offense, but the announcement of it now sheds a bit of a negative tone on Bryan's farewell.
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After Bryan concluded his speech to the WWE Universe, RAW went off the air and the remainder of his farewell was aired on the WWE Network.
The whole locker room gathered on the stage, including McMahon, and it was at this point that O'Neil grabbed him. Though O'Neil probably should have been more professional and let Bryan just have his moment, the reaction seems harsh. The WWE even edited O'Neil's actions out of the video, so that could have just been the end of it.
Levying a suspension down on the former Prime Time Player takes the focus of the ending of RAW away from Bryan and hones in on O'Neal's behavior toward McMahon. The WWE sent O'Neil home from Tuesday night's SmackDown tapings in Oregon due to his "unprofessional conduct" and levied the suspension on him.
The ban could last up to 90 days, but it seems like anything more than a warning is an overreaction by the WWE's brass, even if the suspension proves to be shorter. By all appearances, O'Neil is a standup guy and has done a lot of great things for the company, even gaining great publicity by winning "Celebrity Dad of the Year" at the MEGA Dad Awards in May.
Unless there's more to the story, it seems McMahon and/or the rest of the WWE brass has lost their mind by handing out this harsh of a punishment for an incident that would have gone undetected if not for the ramifications attached to it, which the WWE itself brought to light.
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