It’s a reunion more anticipated than Thanksgiving leftovers. Wrestling’s wildest family drama—the Bloodline saga—just got a big creative boost as Michael “P.S.” Hayes, the maestro behind WWE’s Shakespearean soap opera, returned to the SmackDown backstage area. After a brief hiatus for personal reasons, Hayes is back to guide the chaotic “Original Bloodline vs. New Bloodline” storyline to its inevitable WarGames crescendo.
Sources, a.k.a. the wrestling grapevine over at Fightful Select, confirmed Hayes came back swinging with a “heavy number of producer assignments” for Friday’s SmackDown double taping. Apparently, this guy doesn’t believe in easing back into the madness.
While Hayes was away, the plot thickened like gravy at Survivor Series: WarGames dinner. The Original Bloodline welcomed back “Honorary Uce” Sami Zayn for some vintage fist-bumping action, but the squad’s still one member short. Roman Reigns has been ringing the digital batphone to recruit Seth Rollins—his SHIELD-bro-turned-metal-screaming-foe—but Rollins keeps ghosting the Tribal Chief like it’s a bad Bumble match. Meanwhile, Paul Heyman, the supposed “Wise Man,” has either dropped his phone in the sink or switched to a carrier plan less reliable than Roman’s temper.
To keep things interesting, Bronson Reed joined the New Bloodline team during Hayes’ absence, ensuring that the WarGames teams are just as dramatic as a Thanksgiving family argument.
And let’s not forget Bruce Prichard, another key backstage wizard, is also out dealing with a family emergency. WWE assures us that despite these absences, the only thing chaotic backstage is the storyline, not the corporate chain of command. Sure, WWE. That’s exactly what we’d say, too.