10 Small Details Wrestling Still Can’t Get Right

7. Talking On The Phone

Shane McMahon Phone
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There has never been a WWE promo starting with someone on the phone that hasn't been interrupted.

You know how it goes: WWE cameras flash backstage after a match to show an authority figure fielding a call that goes nowhere. Suddenly, another performer enters the scene, there's a quick "I'll call you back" piece of dialogue and then the real meat of the matter occurs.

Why the hell would camera men and women be shooting something as boring as a family or business phone call in the first place? The insinuation is that the crew just follow important figures around capturing everything they do, and then (again, magically), they just so happen to shoot developments that further storylines on the show.

This is dull. Dull, dull, dull. Worse, some promos expose that nobody is actually on the other side of the call at all. This trope needs to die, because it insults the intelligence of fans and is hardly essential to a skit's success anyway.

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