10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About 2022

10. Drew McIntyre: Karaoke Star

Without becoming another AEW, an actual wrestling promotion, the idea of Triple H taking over WWE was at the very least meant to return us to the dramatic principles of wrestling as an emulation of sport.

WWE TV is WWE TV. The formula works, commercially anyway, and they like it. That's why they've done it for almost 25 years. Still, underneath the three camera sitcom dialogue, wacky props, and supernatural entities, this all has to mean something. The characters have to take the world seriously, even if the world itself is utterly exaggerated.

This was not the case at Clash At The Castle, at the theoretically heartbreaking conclusion of which Drew McIntyre cheered himself up by singing some songs. Despite suggestions that this was a production hiccup - which scanned more as bargaining - the very reputable Fightful Select confirmed that the karaoke segment was in fact planned.

Why?

He should have been devastated after losing to Roman Reigns. This was the culmination of his very life's work, in front of actual people and his "own" this time. This was meant to reverse the curse of both WrestleMania 36 and, as illustrated by a superb pre-match hype video, the failure of his original 'Chosen One' character.

Wins and losses have to matter. This was such a widespread complaint of Vince's WWE that an entire new mainstream competitor improbably sprang into existence in defiance of it.

Triple H's WWE isn't too dissimilar, is it?

Just sing. Just play the bingos.

Just have fun out there.