10 Worst Ways WWE Butchers The English Language

10. "Superstars"

They're wrestlers, pal.

This one must be among the most irksome for the talent. Wrestling has a long lineage that stretches back into ancient civilizations as both sport and form of combat. Wrestling was one of the first breakout phenomena of early TV and has been a mainstay ever since. Dozens of professional wrestlers started out as amateur wrestlers for their university or their country.

In Vince's world, though, ''wrestler'' is a word that denotes dusty carnivals or half-empty bingo halls. The small-time, the junior leagues. Even though people like AJ Styles and Daniel Bryan and Becky Lynch and Keith Lee started there not so long ago. No, in Vince's brain, these men and women were nothing until they got into the WWE fold.

New Japan called, and they would beg to differ.

Once you make it to the WWE, you're now an entertainer, and expected to cooperate with whatever skit or gag makes Vince and the writers laugh. That's what ''Superstars'' do - what's best for WWE, because by God they should be grateful that they're not in some other bush-league promotion.

Paul Heyman seems to have made some headway with this: witness the "Greatest Wrestling Match Ever" at Backlash 2020.