10 Biggest Reasons Everyone Is Abandoning WWE

By Liam Johnson /

3. Atrocious Comedy

This has been a problem with WWE for over a decade now. Vince McMahon recently said on Steve Austin's live podcast that €œyou've got to have fun sometimes€, referring to the various skits and angles they've produced over the years and backstage ribs. The problem is that Vince doesn't seem to realise that most people don't find his particular brand of slapstick humour funny. The Attitude Era had it right with the comedy. DX were funny. The Rock was funny. Val Venis, even, was funny. Even as a young child of 9 watching WWE during the Attitude Era, that brand of comedy was funny, even if it sometimes went over your head. Vince McMahon's 2015 WWE's version of comedy, with Dean Ambrose wrestling a mannequin isn't funny. 2009 WWE's version of comedy with DX holding a €œlittle people's court€ wasn't funny. Vince seems to assume that an audience of children demands childish humour. He doesn't seem to realise that children watch WWE for the same reason adults do: drama and excitement. The awful comedy, as such, is an excuse waiting to be made by the fans too embarrassed to admit they watch a show where John Cena does Yoda impressions and writes €œPoop€ on the side of someone else's car.