10 Biggest Fan Complaints WWE Don’t Actually Want To Fix
5. "That Finish Was Sh*t!"
Jim Cornette is by no means the perfect measuring stick of popular opinion in 2018, but he was once credited with positing a logically sound theory that everything in pro wrestling has a seven year sell-by date. Major angles, storylines and matches can be lifted after that time passes, based theoretically on the inclusion of generations that will view old tricks as brand new illusions.
The internet has narrowed the spectrum somewhat - fans can head on to websites such as the one you're on right now for callbacks to some of the best and worst moments in wrestling history - but the practice stands up to scrutiny if for nothing else to keep creative as fresh as possible in an industry that ostensibly relies on such vitality.
Raw and SmackDown are cursed with infuriatingly regular roll-up finishes, whilst agents are liberally stealing from one another with little care for the quality of the show as a whole. At WrestleMania, Charlotte was asked to perform a Spanish Fly an hour or so after Cruiserweights had already done the manoeuvre. A month later, she was required to sell a knee on the same night Seth Rollins constructed a match-of-the-year candidate with The Miz around his own injured appendage.