10 Wrestlers Who Were Shoot PISSED As Soon As The Match Finished

10. Shawn Michaels

There's very little to actively like about WWE's partnership with the Saudi General Sports Authority.

It's a bleak and morally reprehensible exercise in sports-washing. Look who isn't allowed to perform.

Look who wasn't, but now is, because something has to be seen to be "changing".

And, in what is an altogether less important reason, the shows are dull glorified house show jobs. They sever your interest with plodding action that just exists, and when it's over, it's easily forgotten, like a penny in a well.

At least, the shows used to be mid even by WWE standards. The last two events were well-received and were as canonical as every other event on the calendar. It's almost as if WWE insidiously dialled up their importance once the raw, ugly feeling of propaganda subsided in time's curious way. Basically, the shows are grimmer for being halfway good because this was the plan all along. They are to feel normal.

If there's some enjoyment to be gleaned from the sports-washing, on a schadenfreude level, it's through the tell-tale look on the faces of the veterans who disgrace their legacies in pursuit of blood money. When Shawn Michaels tried to justify breaking his retirement, by insisting that DX Vs. the Brothers of Destruction at Crown Jewel '18 was just a greatest hits set, you could tell by the look on his face immediately after the finish that he didn't believe his own bullsh*t. He looked pissed with himself, even mouthing to Triple H "We're too old for this sh*t". If he lost his smile in 1997, he found a sarcastic one 21 years later.

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