10 Despicable Double Standards We See In WWE

Much like with its scripting, WWE often shoots itself in the foot when it comes to booking habits, while there’s also a tendency to play favourites.

The 50-50, even-steven booking patterns are often more of a hindrance than a help, and it affects the majority of the roster. Talented guys like Finn Bálor and Bray Wyatt are pencilled in to trade wins back-and-forth in months-long programmes that seem to tread water, making for a formula that rarely serves to get either guy over.

Plus, the overriding focus is all very pro-McMahon.

Unless it’s at WrestleMania, Stephanie McMahon rarely, if ever, gets her comeuppance. That, despite the fact that she used to slap around anyone and everyone who crossed her path on weekly television. Triple H, meanwhile, is regularly inserted into the main event angles – as we saw recently at Survivor Series – while Shane McMahon’s been lucky enough to face AJ Styles and the Undertaker at back-to-back WrestleManias.

That perceived favouritism, combined with the 50-50 booking elsewhere on the card, feels like a major double-standard - and makes it even more difficult for the non-McMahons to establish themselves as major players.