10 Major Flaws With WWE's Current Pay-Per-View Model
6. Screwy Finishes
If you like your big wrestling matches to finish cleanly, decisively, and logically, WWE isn’t the promotion for you. Athletic standards are higher than ever, but the company continually ruin great wrestling with bad writing. No show ever passes without a myriad of distractions, disqualifications, and countouts, and the habit is wearing thin.
Such conclusions can be valuable storytelling tools when used sparingly, but their use expires when they’re called upon multiple times on every single show. Sadly, WWE just aren’t content to let matches succeed on the quality of the actual work anymore, and it’s no surprise that their two best matches of the year (John Cena vs. AJ Styles, Tyler Bate vs. Pete Dunne) featured hard-fought, clean finishes.
There’s a perception among certain sects of the audience that every clean loss is a burial, but this just isn’t true. Nobody will look down on a wrestler for losing a good match, and burials only happen when WWE go out of their way to deliberately make a performer look bad (see: Bayley vs. Alexa Bliss). They don’t need to do away with screwy finishes entirely, but they’d definitely benefit from applying some restraint.