10 Reasons Why People Don't Give A Sh*t About WWE Anymore

8. All Hope Is Gone

VINCE THUMB
WWE.com

Bias and naivety are too completely different things.

It isn't "biased" to forecast doom for every pushed WWE talent. It would be naive to expect WWE not to f*ck them up.

Cesaro is doing nothing in the midcard in 2022. In 2021, the more optimistic or naive fans thought that a "WrestleMania Moment" with Seth Rollins was all he needed to finally get the push. Lads, it's been 10 years. The "let it play out" meme is surely dead. You'd have to have brain worms to unleash it. Some did, when Finn Bàlor slipped off the top rope at Extreme Rules. "It's going somewhere," people insisted.

The only direction it went was from the top turnbuckle to the canvas.

Veer isn't coming. Ricochet is doomed. At least Icarus approached the sun. Ricochet can't get away from Main Event. The Hurt Business have reformed. Except, they haven't. They're just wearing the t-shirts as Bobby Lashley is none the wiser.

WWE can't even f*ck up an NXT call-up in 2022 because NXT is dead. There is no longer an illusion of hope that WWE's main event scene won't look as tired as Vince McMahon's piss-hole in the snow eyes.

The cast is older than that of Cocoon, and the scripts, Jesus Christ, the scripts...

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