10 Reasons Why WWE Fans Are Sick Of Nostalgia

10. Shameless Shane

Shane McMahon is (or was) beloved because he once grasped his character brilliantly.

A spoiled rich kid with a bristling over-enthusiasm - of course this silver spoon-fed heir to a monarchy would act like a complete brat, with sheer entitlement acting as a toddler's sugar rush - Shane was a classic love-to-hate figure who fell from lunatic heights to reward the audience he antagonised with such aplomb.

Even as a face, Shane wrestled as a limited non-wrestler, infamously matching guts with Kurt Angle's technical glory in a superb story-driven match at King Of The Ring 2001. But the Shane McMahon we see in 2018 is not the same Shane McMahon we remember from 1999. Somehow, in the intervening decade and a half, Shane has evolved from scrapper to scientific genius. He must have spent his WWE hiatus in the New Japan dojo; that might explain his sudden ability to wrestle AJ Styles as if he, too, was a technical wizard.

Shane is nostalgia for nostalgia's sake - Member Berries with an acidic aftertaste spoiled through ego. It feels at times as if we're meant to receive Shane as a popular figure simply because he performed in a more popular era. He is catered to the rose-tinted "Bring back the Attitude Era" apologists but, if the deathly Survivor Series silence suggests anything, they are decreasing in number and voice.