10 Times Wrestling Ruined What You Loved

3. Music

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As subjective and taste-based as any of the other much-debated hobbies and interests you can read about on this very site, music is something people can take extremely seriously.

"What sounds good?" is forever in the ear of the beholder, but unfortunately for longstanding WWE fans in particular, the ear belongs to Kevin Dunn and the answer is dank butt rock or lazily cobbled-together commercial hip hop. Or worse - the looping of ageing metal acts you never grew out of.

Worse still, the more-is-always-more nature of WWE's marketing since Day Dot ensures that even your favourite songs will be pounded into your skull like the fingers on your temple when you're sick of hearing it. There are timeless exceptions of course, but if your Spotify playlists are predominantly made up of old pay-per-view themes and the AC/DC back catalogue alone, there's a preposterously-sized pandora's box awaiting you beyond Dunn and Vince McMahon's tunnel-visioned glares.

 
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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett