10 Blatant WWE Cash Grabs
Oh, look a title with your most popular star's face on it! TAKE MY MONEY!
As much as die-hard fans will always petition for WWE to be the outstanding wrestling-centric show it has the potential to be on any given night, one harsh truth always remains.
WWE is a business and Vince McMahon is a businessman.
This means that above all else, the company needs to be making money and in order to make that money they need people to be pumping their hard earned cash into the product.
Be that through buying tickets to PPVs or investing in your favourite star's newest t-shirt, it doesn't matter as long as McMahon has got your dollar.
Yet, in some cases WWE implement a product or business venture that is so obviously a money-making tool, that it almost feels offensive in its execution.
Shoe-horned match gimmicks leading to the promotion of children's play sets and soul-selling events acting as the company's own personal cash cow have all hammered home just what lengths WWE will go to in order to earn a quick buck.
These instances all deserve to be named and shamed for the world to see, so here are 10 Blatant WWE Cash Grabs.
10. Shark Cage Match
Ah, the Shark Cage match.
The stipulation isn't anything new in the world of pro wrestling and has been hanging around the ring for decades. However, the match suddenly found itself thrown back into pop culture upon its use at NXT TakeOver: Toronto in a match between the Authors of Pain and TM61. Then, it was used again at the 2017 Royal Rumble when Kevin Owens defended his Universal title against Roman Reigns.
This all felt very odd as the structure hadn't been seen for years in a wrestling capacity. But, then things all became that little bit clearer when WWE announced their new Crash Cage Playset.
The set would include a standard ring, but suspended above it was now the aforementioned shark cage and the object of the game was to launch your favourite stars at the cage until it crashed to the mat.
Fun, fun, fun.
This opened the door for a few more Shark Cage matches down the line and we were gifted the image of the likes of Enzo Amore and James Ellsworth both dangling overhead, in an attempt to force parents to buy their children this new toy.
I mean if the prospect of Enzo falling to the ground from a great height isn't an incentive, I don't know what is.