10 Problems Only WWE Fans Will Understand

If RAW or Smackdown comes anywhere near your home town (‘near’ being a moveable feast, depending on where you live), the temptation to buy a ticket is outrageous. That pressure is doubled if a special event (what they used to call a pay-per-view in those clockwork pre-Network days) comes to town.

But those big televised events aren’t set up with spectators in mind. Wrestling isn’t a stadium sport, no matter what they’ve been trying to tell and sell us over the last forty years. You grimly pay through the nose to sit in the nosebleed seats and squint at a giant screen off to the side while trying to hear what people are saying over the house mics as they advance storylines and bicker with each other at the expense of actually trying to entertain the crowd.

If you’re unlucky enough to attend a taping instead of a live broadcast, then if a match goes off badly they’ll actually go for a second take later on. You’re also likely to be in for the long haul, as the show you’ve come to see will come attached to a taping for one of their C or D shows. If you’re a die-hard fan, you’ll want to stay hyped for the entire four or five hour show.

You won’t be able to.

Far better to suck it up, admit that the TV shows are sh*tshows and go to a house show instead. Free of constraint, the people you actually came to see perform will wrestle their oversized hearts out for you in a venue that’s actually fit for purpose.