Respect Gohan6425 said:then why not do it anyway?
I cannot answer for certain. But I think it has to do with the company's image. If they did it with Lanny protesting it would be WWE coming off as the bad guys, which would hurt the company's standing in the public eye. Lanny cannot come off as a bad guy in that scenario unless he said "Randy doesn't deserve it" which he obviously doesn't think.