10 Annoying Ways WWE Ruined What We Once Loved

A worked shoot, or an intentional breaking of the Fourth Wall, or a Pipebomb or whatever you want to call it, makes for some of the most compelling pieces of storytelling possible in a wrestling sphere. But, but, but, yet again, use it too much and it starts to lose that impact.

When CM Punk dropped his legendary Pipebomb promo, in many ways it represented a paradigm shifted for WWE. All of a sudden reality was fusing into kayfabe. Wrestlers were starting to address each other by real names, people were citing the real-life struggles they had to overcome to get to where they were, even things like management’s obsession with John Cena was being openly mentioned on a live WWE mic.

A lot of it was good. After all, it gave us the Daniel Bryan vs the system storyline which was one of the best things to happen to wrestling in recent times.

Since then it has become almost part and parcel of cutting a promo. Wrestlers are constantly going on about their real-world situations, being held back, the brass ring, backstage favourites, the list goes on. It has rendered kayfabe almost non-existent. Wrestling needs the suspension of disbelief.

This constant drawing back of the curtain has made that very difficult, and it has ruined something that when used correctly and rarely, can make for some amazing storytelling.