10 Worst Years To Be A WWE Fan

10. 2020

What are you finding easier at the moment? Looking in the mirror, looking outside your window, or looking at the television when Monday Night Raw is on? All of them result in deep introspection, but at least you have control over one of them. Don't you?

Raw's numbers have dipped lately - in line with drops across the board for all mainstream wrestling - but the loyalists are sticking around for whatever reason, suggesting that the existing figures will forever be WWE's rock bottom whenever the shareholders come knocking. Physical health of talent be damned. Mental health of released and furloughed talent be damned to hell.

With rule proving exceptions such as the Firefly Fun House and the upcoming Money In The Bank matches, necessity hasn't proven the mother of invention, unless "invention" can be defined by how to effectively spotlight and promote a ceiling fan.

The company making their own new normal from this extremely challenging real one is exactly the sort of thing everybody woefully predicted right as global circumstances confined folk to their own homes en masse. Opportunities for the first ever (welcome) season finale were lost, and the Performance Center became wrestling's elephant graveyard until otherwise instructed.

Authored by Michael Hamflett

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation for nearly 10 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett

Posted On: 22nd Apr 2020

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