12 Ups & 12 Downs For WWE In 2019
Weirdest pro wrestling on the planet. Period.
How else can one assess 12 months of WWE television without doing as they do and going entirely 50/50? This is not a month-by-month breakdown in which the company rather organically arranges one good and one bad thing every thirty days - but the product would probably be a little more straightforward if that was the case.
An extreme elevation of the chaos that's gradually grown into the norm over the past couple of years, 2019 was at times magical and at others miserable. The lows were amongst some of the worst in company history, but the highs made history that will stand proudly for generations to come.
This list won't include anything from NXT by the way, lest all 12 positives be from the black-and-gold brand. Finding hope for the hopeless on Raw and SmackDown is like trying to find a clean finish on either of those broadcasts - near-impossible, but immensely more satisfying when it happens.
No, from Dog Food to Graveyard Dogs, this'll only be from WWE, and only from the "genius" mind of Vince McMahon. And speaking of that...