10 Biggest Fan Protests Ignored By WWE

Sorry, who is this 'CM Punk' that you speak of?

With the rise of the internet, insider terminology and backstage gossip became common knowledge, and seemingly overnight everyone became a smart fan. The grimy, fanzine-style €˜dirtsheets€™ became slick websites. First news groups, then message boards, then social media like Facebook and Twitter have all given fans an increasingly prominent place to congregate and discuss their increasingly informed views on wrestling as a business... and WWE as a product in particular. WWE claim that any reaction is a good reaction, and that as long as people are booing or cheering, it doesn't really matter what for. That, as any fan of professional wrestling knows, is horse puckey. Professional wrestling isn't rocket surgery: if people like it, they'll cheer, if they don't, they'll boo. If you're getting increasingly negative responses to things that you expect positive responses on, you've got a problem. Sometimes they've finally capitulated, months later: sometimes it's been more than a few months, maybe even years, and they're still grimly sticking to their guns. Whatever the case, these are the biggest fan protests of the product that WWE have, in their infinite wisdom, chosen to ignore.

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