10 Things We Learned From WWE WrestleMania Weekend 2022

10. NXT 2.0 IS For Kids, Even When It's Not

NXT Stand & Deliver was a perfectly passable wrestling show when things hit, even if nothing even remotely approached the level of an old TakeOver.

A relatively small crowd greeted the roster inside the American Airlines Center, made up of a not insignificant amount of children. This matters to WWE - fans they create young may well stay fans forever - even though a show with an extremely child-friendly gimmick such as Cora Jade had a follow-up segment with Indi Hartwell and Persia Pirotta arguing over whose boyfriend was better at penetrative sexual intercourse.

It's that blunt, that blatant and that dissonant.

Your writer witnessed two separate sets of parents either look away or look totally awkward as the nonsense wrestling show they’d kindly taken their child to descended into contemporary Carry On farce. Worse than that in fact - the innuendo was less hidden than Barbara Windsor’s breasts used to be.

NXT 2.0 has still never fully established its audience profile nor precise purpose (more on that later), and live, this was a stark and bewildering reminder.