10 Problems Only WWE Fans Will Understand
2. The Spectre Of Scandal Hangs Over You
The McMahons have made huge a song and dance over the years about WWE being mainstream entertainment. For years, we’ve heard about crossover synergy and going public, about movies and celebrity guests, about WrestleMania being the Superbowl and WWE superstars being multi-media, multi-platform, multi-millionaire household names.
Just as was their evil plan, people have gradually forgotten that WWF/E is an organisation built around professional wrestling, a carny art form, the bastard child of sports and entertainment.
And then, every few years, something Bad happens.
Someone will die - or kill someone else. There will be a drug bust, or a tell-all shoot interview or a book that opens a few doors that were thought closed and locked these two or three decades past… and that’s when wrestling’s ugly past will come crashing back in.
You’ll be reminded that the thing you love hangs in a web of lies, naked opportunism and the broken bones and bloated corpses of your favourite wrestlers: people who got into the business, by and large, because they loved it even more than you do. You’ll be confronted with the drug culture that still lurks by every locker room door, and the dozens of dodgy little ways that WWE screws over their own performers every single day in the name of profit.
You’ll feel sh*tty about it all for the length of time it takes for this latest story to go away… and then you’ll carry on watching, just a spoke on the wheel.