10 WWE Creative Secrets The Writers DON’T Want You To Know

10. Their Worst Creative Shortcut

WWE has a secret shortcut with which they pad out the excessively overlong and stilted promos on television. They don't want you to notice how often they rely on this crutch because it exposes them as hacks.

This crutch is scripting the talent to, in effect, read out the 'Championships and accomplishments' section of their Wikipedia pages. The Miz is the most galling repeat offender: how many times has he told you how often he has won the Intercontinental title?

Almost as many times as he's won the bloody thing, which underscores how little the title used to mean - for years and years and years - before GUNTHER actually brought the prestige back to it.

The Miz isn't alone in parroting this hideous exposition. On the May 15 Raw, the debuting JD McDonagh read out Dolph Ziggler's 'Championships and accomplishments' section to explain why Ziggler was a scalp at whose expense he can make a name for himself.

This expository shortcut also exposes the fact that far too many wrestlers in WWE have won titles as part of an undisciplined overarching approach to creative. Over time - and yes, for now, Triple H has corrected this by booking multiple lengthy reigns - Vince McMahon's mental whims have converged to make almost everybody a champion at some point or another.

Apollo Crews, on the same broadcast, made mention of the fact that he is a former United States and Intercontinental champion - and he otherwise talked about how this was his second chance.

Had to get it in, though.