Summary

Lance Storm said he stopped watching the March 30, 2026 edition of Raw after Cody Rhodes' closing line to Stephanie McMahon during their in-ring segment.

Storm said the reference to Vince McMahon crossed a line for him because of the allegations tied to McMahon's name. The reaction came after the latest WrestleMania 42 build on Raw, which already drew attention when Stephanie McMahon confronted Cody Rhodes on Raw.

Quote from Lance Storm

"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."

WWE creative faces more scrutiny after the Cody Rhodes segment

Storm's comments put the focus back on how WWE is handling sensitive material during the WrestleMania 42 build, especially when a major Cody Rhodes segment becomes part of the wider conversation for reasons beyond the Rhodes vs. Randy Orton feud itself.

His criticism also tied Raw to a broader complaint about recent creative choices, which means the discussion around WWE's presentation is now reaching beyond one line from Rhodes and into how the company is framing controversial subject matter across multiple shows.

Sources

As reported by NoDQ.