10 Best WWE Network Shows Of 2018
9. Ride Along
Ride Along is lie.
The only moments of struggle in AJ Styles' '365' special provided the nuggets of truth Ride Along obscures - a travelling salesmen's life is a tough one, not least when the flogged product in question is their own beaten body. 'The Phenomenal One' was relishing the opportunity to be company figurehead, but openly wore the emotional and physical wounds of the grind as the cameras rolled.
Ride Along effectively forces wrestlers to work a split shift between their time between the ropes and their trip to the next hotel. It is not a definitive and truthful travelogue, but it is - as with so many WWE Network vehicles - yet another method of presenting talent in more relatable fashion that the weekly churn.
Amongst other things, professional wrestlers are work colleagues too - intimate ones at that. Time in cramped spaces is something they're good at making the best of, and they almost always do on these carefully edited road trips. Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows once brilliantly bantered off their own WWE runs in the show, noting that they'd probably appeared more times on it than they'd won matches. For Gallows at least, it was the rare case of the company exploiting his most positive attribute.