10 Most INFURIATING WWE Quirks
8. "Would"
Worse than the constant replays of the same segments you've just finished watching is the framing of the exposition. In addition to sympathetic babyfaces, nuance and Dolph Ziggler, Vince McMahon is allergic to the past tense. He instead instructs Michael Cole to recap events in a future perfect tense. It's all a bit confounding, and complete unnecessary.
To research this entry, not that we aren't subjected to it every 15 f*cking minutes, we would fire up the most recent episode of RAW available on the Network, and would use the cursor to skip ahead to the end of the second segment. We would then watch as Michael Cole revisited the events of the previous week, as Brock Lesnar would sit up, like Kane, after taking a beating.
"Yeah, but watch this: Brock Lesnar, just like Kane, would sit up in the middle of the ring. Corey, he was not done yet," said Cole.
"A Defiant "Beast" would then clothesline Kane out of the ring, and chaos would then ensue," Corey Graves followed up.
We would find this patronising, and we would find it ironic. Like so much of the product, it is far more convoluted than it needs to be. For a company so fixated on the past, it is incapable of using the past tense.