10 Biggest Fan Complaints WWE Don’t Actually Want To Fix
9. "This Match Happened Last Week!"
What even is a feud in WWE anymore?
It's not a single match, the lone pay-per-view climax to weeks of bellyaching between two performers in the form of a box office battle. It's not even a protracted-but-projected series of clashes. With the exception of an explicitly-labelled Best Of Seven (or other such) selection, the repeat performances between rivals exist only to fill time rather than fulfil narrative need. The requirement to overstock so many moribund minutes on Monday Night Raw especially creates unparalleled parity at a time where most 'Superstars' are already too afraid to push themselves above the parapet anyway.
Elias and Bobby Roode fought four times in singles matches over April and May, with the guitar-bothering banter-merchant emerging from the contests 3-1 up but several notches down in subverted popularity than he was when he gloriously trolled WrestleMania 34 less than two months earlier.
'The Glorious One' didn't particular suffer for his losses. Only wronging Braun Strowman landed Roode on the wrong end of an enormous Powerslam.
Neither perished, neither flourished. They just wrestled and wrestled and wrestled and wrestled. As they will again before the end of the year. Play us out, Elias.