10 Biggest Fan Complaints WWE Don’t Actually Want To Fix
3. "Where's The Pyro?!"
It's in Saudi Arabia, that's where.
With a few token fireworks shelled out for in New Orleans (WWE's experimentations with on-screen visuals at the 'Show Of Shows' instead were, put kindly, cheap rather than cost effective), the company took all their serious firepower to Greatest Royal Rumble and presumably left the rest behind for Greatest Survivor Series or whatever batsh*t card they've got planned next as willing passengers on Vision 2030's next hype train.
Employed with reckless abandon in the mid-90s to shine an even brighter light on stars that perhaps required more spotlight than their forebearers, it's been gradually downplayed and virtually eradicated over the past two years as part of a cost-cutting (and perhaps, expectation-lowering) measure.
Such a cut is nearly as insulting as a sacking a member of the ring crew at this point. Vince McMahon has never been closer to living out a real Scrooge McDuck fantasy deep dive, and yet customers dropping hard-earned dollars can't get some fireworks with their favourite performers?
WWE know its value - the pyro is featured heavily in the show-opening vanity plate despite only being a feature of 'Then', rather than 'Now'. It should be there forever.