10 Great Wrestling Matches (That Ruined Everything)
10. Shawn Michaels Vs. The Undertaker - WWE WrestleMania 25
Yes, this point has been made on this author page before, but it bears repeating.
If anything, it should be printed on a big, massive piece of f*cking paper and taped to every dressing room wall in North America. It should appear on every wall, door and window in the WWE Performance Center especially, not that they'd see it. They're too busy staring at their hands.
The text on said piece of paper should read:
It only worked when the Undertaker expressed shock in 2009 because it put over the idea that Shawn Michaels only had to beat a mere mortal after all, which informed the drama of every move that followed!
Feigning shock because your opponent kicked out of a signature is the worst thing to happen to modern wrestling. "I can't believe the thing that always happened actually happened!"
It's not just NXT. There's more chance of the world itself no longer turning than there is of Adam Cole winning a match with the Panama Sunrise - but this trope is particularly associated with Tuesday nights.
At dinnertime, does an NXT Producer tell their children not to eat their food, but to stare at it?