4 Ups & 11 Downs From WWE Raw (Jan 11)
10. B*lls
There was a time when this writer thought it was edgy for a wrestler to tell his opponent he didn’t have any b***s. It was new, unheard of, and something you just didn’t hear on TV.
It was also 1998.
Fast-forward 22 years, and questioning someone’s manhood as a means to get someone to do something they might not want to isn’t just overplayed – it’s WWE’s absolute go-to trope for an insult. (Didn’t someone just use that very same insult on Miz a couple of weeks ago?) Nevertheless, here was Randy Orton, dusting it off on Monday night to egg Triple H on, complete with intimating that Hunter’s wife Stephanie McMahon had his genitals in her purse.
Oooh, sick burn! Never heard that one before… this year. Maybe we’ll go all the way around and hit “mom jokes” next.
But seriously, it’s lame, it’s unoriginal, and it’s poor storytelling. In fact, it isn’t storytelling at all. It’s just a lazy writer crutch.