10 Secrets To Enjoying WWE In 2019 (Despite Its Flaws)
8. Change Your Consumption Method
Following professional wrestling is exhausting in 2019, particularly if you're a completionist.
WWE produce six hours of original main roster content for Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live weekly. NXT and NXT UK add another two. Watching other promotions on top of this adds further content to the pile that nobody with a typical 40-hours-a-week job could ever hope to catch up with should they fall behind.
Here's the thing, though: you don't have to consume every single second of content WWE put out. Raw is three hours long on its own. Commit to that, and you're essentially committing yourself to sitting through the equivalent of two Hollywood action films every Monday night. It's a brutal, relentless grind that'll leave you exhausted, beaten down, and with skewed opinions on the quality of matches and segments that probably aren't half as bad as your grumpiness is leading you to believe.
Instead of watching the full live broadcast, why watch these shows with the aid of a fast-forward button? Record Raw and SmackDown then skip through the ad breaks and anything else that doesn't excite you. Or, alternatively, consume the whole show via WWE's YouTube uploads. You'll be done in 20 minutes.