Anyone who calls in to question the screwjob off this is a reaching.
An angle which takes 12 years for the pay off....
....Come on.
He loves wrestling, he wanted back, he wanted to finish his career on a high, they could hardly ignore the entire incident.
No one is saying the screwjob was an intentional work meant to have a sequel 12 years later. Obviously this was decided on fairly recently to give this a final chapter. I do agree that it would have been tough to ignore it completely, but he could have returned with that incident not dominating the return. Instead, that's all its about.
As the storyline progresses into the usual weekly skits, its not far fetched for fans to call into question how real that incident really was.