10 Secrets To Enjoying WWE In 2019 (Despite Its Flaws)

6. Pick & Choose

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WWE's diversity is both its biggest creative strength and its biggest creative weakness. They're trying to serve every master at once, so Raw, SmackDown, and pay-per-views become bloated variety shows with vast tonal differences from segment-to-segment. This is why nobody can ever agree on them: one moment is made for little children, the other is designed to pop creepy old men.

Cherrypicking is therefore essential. If you don't want to watch Shane McMahon's show-opening in-ring segment, don't: skip straight to Andrade and Finn Balor's non-title banger. Similarly, if you missed WrestleMania 35, there's absolutely no need to sit through dross like Triple H vs. Batista and most of the Kickoff Show. Experience the best of it by going for Seth Rollins, Kofi Kingston, and Becky Lynch's title wins, the so-bad-it's-good Shane McMahon vs. The Miz clash (more on this idea later), AJ Styles vs. Randy Orton, and the SmackDown Tag Team Championship four-way. Why bother dedicating time to anything you know you won't enjoy? That doesn't make any sense.

Being a completionist is overrated, anyway. Nobody's going to give you a medal for sitting through every boring undercard match that makes tape.

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Andy has been with WhatCulture for eight years and is currently WhatCulture's Wrestling Channel Manager. A writer, presenter, and editor with 10+ years of experience in online media, he has been a sponge for all wrestling knowledge since playing an old Royal Rumble 1992 VHS to ruin in his childhood. Having previously worked for Bleacher Report, Andy specialises in short and long-form writing, video presenting, voiceover acting, and editing, all characterised by expert wrestling knowledge and commentary. Andy is as much a fan of 1985 Jim Crockett Promotions as he is present-day AEW and WWE - just don't make him choose between the two.