5 Things WWE Cinematic Matches Should NOT Do (And 5 Things They SHOULD Do)

10. DON’T: Meander Between One Convention And Another

While it's become the norm, there needs to be at least a few rules.

Presently there are standard wrestling matches, and there are cinematic matches, and blurring the two together is the first thing WWE need to put some reconsideration into. Giving matches the cinematic touch, and grounding cinematic spectacles so far into normality that they might as well have just taken place in the empty arena, makes the convention extremely confusing and leaves audiences wondering what the heck they were even looking at.

The Randy Orton vs. Edge ‘Greatest Wrestling Match Ever’ of Backlash 2020 had no end of weird cutaways, which ruptured the illusion at a very early point. Editing segments together to create a whole impression is one thing, (probably necessary given the circumstances) but shooting the two competitors from underneath during their first lock-in, only to have said cameraman disappear in the next shot is just plain weird… borderline patronising in fact.

So was it even cinematic or not? WWE are urged to clarify beforehand and keep with the programme.