10 Biggest Frauds In Wrestling Right Now
4. "Premium Live Event"
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"Premium Live Event" is, if nothing else, an excellent title that has at long last replaced pay-per-view in company vernacular several years after the phrase became redundant.
The advent of the WWE Network brought about the company themselves calling people fools for putting money down on the monthly events, and after eventually flogging that service to Peacock, the organisation finally landed on a way to describe the live Sunday night shows that broadly serve as bookends for most of the nonsense on Mondays and Fridays.
"Premium", though?
The events are many things. Match-heavy and with limited time allotted to tropes and scripting that pollute the contemporary product, they are perhaps the best possible representation of WWE in 2022. Or a very least the most digestible. But "shortcut to most optimal content consumption" doesn't exactly scan as premium does it?
WrestleMania 38 closed with Roman Reigns holding both belts aloft and he's not defended them on one of these cards since. Ditto Unified Tag Team Champions The Usos. Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins worked a thriller of a trilogy in the same period of time but the quality was and is a rule proving exception, with Bobby Lashley and Omos' similar series providing the evidence. Drew McIntyre called his Clash Of The Castle title shot on Hell In A Cell's go-home SmackDown despite doing nothing that justified a spot in June ahead of his big night in September.
A lot to like, but the label's a lie.