On Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 3:49 PM EST
According to reports, Stephanie McMahon has reportedly been shaking up the creative department since returning from maternity leave. McMahon's first step was to push for the removal of Bruce Pritchard, who had been with the company for a long time and more changes may lie ahead. She is pushing the creative team to come up with better, meatier story lines and is not allowing them to phone it in on particular programs.
He had not been at TV for the past two weeks and people were told that he was on vacation. Stephanie has apparently held a negative view of him for a few years, finding many of the segments and feuds he's been in charge of, have been done lazy or half-heartedly. That would obviously explain more focus recently, especially on Raw, on the Intercontinental title and mid card feuds. Stephanie saw Pritchard as the chief yes-man for Vince and not be someone who would challenge him in meetings. In the past, he had been considered an important piece of the creative machine at WWE, but over the past few years, had fallen off and appeared to be disinterested.