8 Ups & 13 Downs For WWE In 2021
2. Big E Cashes In
Watching WWE in 2021 doesn't really permit you to engage with a wrestling product the way you're supposed to, instead creating an entity so detached from the real world that relating to it all is seemingly impossible.
It's why so many facets of John Cena's divisive old persona now permeate the entire show. Multiple wrestlers that are neither heel, nor babyface, nor espouse shades of grey. Countless matches that simply happen in front of all our eyes, regardless of the silence they generate in the building. Promos that exist for the people in them rather than those at home or in the seats. Stuff plays out, or it doesn't, and almost none of it feels like it matters.
And it's in this miasma that we go peering, desperately, for anything we love. Big E is categorically that, and the WWE Championship in spite of everything is confirmation of him being validated at long last in his chosen profession. It's your friend getting a promotion or a loved one getting some good news rather than the Superstar Wrestler Winning The Big Match, but this earnest and earned high is just about all that remains.