10 Reasons WWE Raw Is Lucky To Still Be On The Air
7. Steroids 2.0
The second verse was the same as the first, 'cept a little bit louder and a little bit worse.
Following the Benoit family double-murder suicide in 2007, WWE were backed into a corner to act in ways they'd only pretended to after initiating a 2006 Wellness Policy. Suspensions flooded WWE.com whilst the company were knee-deep in a public relations sh*theap unseen for over a decade.
For a while, it wouldn't go away. The lingering threat of more uncomfortable violations loomed large, with John Cena and Triple H notably entrusted with pushes at the expense of virtually every other talent - so secure that the company presumably were in the likelihood of them remaining squeaky clean during extremely dirty times.
Bodies shrunk whilst use of blood, boobs and brawls were tempered dramatically until the company went all-in with an entirely new philosophy in 2008. It was also the year the organisation embraced High Definition, as if to use a literal clearer picture to represent what they were attempting to become in place of the hidden horrors they'd been inadvertently fostering for far too long.