10 Banned Photos WWE Don’t Want You To See

10. Rivals Working Through Their Spots

You know wrestling is predetermined. You’ve known this since you were a child, or at least most of you have: certain stan accounts on X, suggesting they didn’t play outside enough in their youth, seem to believe it’s real. 

It isn’t. 

But you’d like to suspend your disbelief, ideally. You know that the wrestlers work collaboratively, and that many have forged genuine friendships or at least a sense of mutual professional respect - but you don’t need reminding of that. 

You’d like to believe that, for example, Drew McIntyre and CM Punk legitimately couldn’t stand one another - that Drew thought Punk was a toxic presence and that Punk thought Drew was an uninteresting wrestler with a try-hard sense of humour who was only relevant because he deigned to work with him. You’d like to think that they turned up for work after exchanging curt WhatsApp messages mapping out the direction, never saw one another during the day, and vented for real in agreed-upon (but very tense) verbal exchanges. 

This head canon was rather difficult to achieve when photos of the Raw roster leaked. Many rivals - including Drew and Punk - were captured hanging out and blocking their segments. 

There’s only a sliver of magic left, if any. Stop ruining it.