10 Times WWE Made A Massive Mess & NOBODY Cared
Wrestlers with egg on their face. And cake and pie and mud and shame and regret...
This isn't another piece specifically about how WWE seems to have lost touch with everything that used to make its audience tick, but have WWE lost touch with everything that used to make its audience tick?
Vince McMahon was always at pains to say that he wasn't in the wrestling business but the Sports Entertainment one, but the latter half of that seems to have entirely disappeared regardless of the improvement of the former. The athletes keep getting better and better and better, but the f*cking segments they're thrust into? Sh*t the bed WWE know how to sh*t the bed now.
Or, they don't - it's McMahon's favourite comedic device but even some white satin sheets smeared in the stuff probably wouldn't pop the crowd in 2020.
It's a shame the company seemed to lose the magic touch with these - the power of the messy moment used to be in how wild fans would go for the sheer madness of it all. Chaos in the ring bred chaos in the crowds, unlike several recent catastrophes that saw all sorts of muck flying around for less than half the pop it might have once received...
And speaking of a pretty f*cking major recent one of those...
10. Cake Mistake
An all-time lousy segment capped off WWE's rather divergent decade as the wedding of Lana and Bobby Lashley was crashed not just by the 'Ravishing Russian's ex-husband Rusev but also her apparent ex-lover Liv Morgan.
A twist for the sake of twist as a payoff was bad enough, as was the near-total binning of any hopes from the internet's Morgamaniacs that she'd get over in this new guise after being frozen out of angles for the better part of a year, but the response to Lana's cake-covered humiliation didn't really justify the half an hour of sh*t that slid down hill to get to that point.
A series of lows atop one another like tiers on the world's saddest wedding cake, the titular mess in this particular stand-off nearly didn't even materialise - Rusev was to dramatically burst from the pudding but instead just looked like one himself when he couldn't quite get the top tier off at first.
No wrestling company does bullsh*t better, but few can make such a hash of it too.