10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2020
2. Cinematic Wrestling
Two were good, even great.
The creative, fun, scenery-chewing Boneyard Match, if you were able to look past the Undertaker's bad Clint Eastwood, brought the elusive WrestleMania feel to a dank and entitled viral hotspot. As did the Firefly Fun House match, which told through the kaleidoscope of wrestling iconography a fairly audacious story of John Cena's inner, unexplored d*ckhead.
These were legit impressive workarounds that cloaked a certain spectacle over a show otherwise utterly devoid of it.
WWE's cinematic vision deteriorated in quality from there.
Drastically.
The Money In The Bank Ladder match was, in concept, a zany madcap race through Titan Towers, but much like the Overlook Hotel, its awfulness seeped out of the walls. Vince McMahon was an autocratic germaphobe who reduced former World Champions to b*llocked kids; daughter Stephanie was a stern and overbearing haemorrhoid; Paul Heyman, being a fat f*ck, was caked in food.
The Braun Strowman Vs. Bray Wyatt Swamp Fight was an atrocious and pretentious and ultra-cheap bore in which the threat of alligators was conveyed via still image.
Then again, just looking at the WWE logo in the bottom right hand corner of the screen is enough to convince you that something awful is imminent, so you can't really blame them for the pitch.