10 Problems Only WWE Fans Will Understand
5. You Feel Like You're Taking Crazy Pills
But that’s the thing - so many of the things we complain about so often feel like they’re self-evident. Everyone knows that RAW doesn’t work as a three hour show, and it’s clear that no one running it has any idea how to write or structure three hours of live action wrestling television. When has any other fandom ever complained that the TV show they’re obsessed with is too long?
CM Punk’s rise to superstardom in 2011 was clearly botched, although the jury is out as to how much of that was deliberate, #ThankYouHunter. Daniel Bryan’s double WrestleMania XXX victory may have provided a great moment, but it should have come six months earlier, and it only happened at all because WWE’s first choice - Batista - was such a disaster.
Setting aside for the moment whether you love him or hate him, there is clearly a problem with Roman Reigns when the monster heel you book to deliver a brutal backstage beatdown to him gets ‘thank you’ chants live on air.
Meanwhile, John Cena has the potential to be WWE’s best bad guy, and would revolutionise and revitalise the company and its storylines if - when - he turned heel. Isn’t now the perfect time to pull that trigger? But then, people have been saying that for a decade.
All these things feel like they’re blindingly obvious. So why doesn’t WWE feel the same way? Why are they still making the same mistakes, detours down obvious dead ends?
Aren’t they supposed to be the experts, not us?