10 Times WWE Actually Admitted It Sucked

Your writer is often tarred with accusations of "bias", or as it is sometimes more colourfully known, "being a c*nt".

But consider this:

WWE has buried itself for far, far longer than June of 2016. Months prior to that WC employment start date, Shane McMahon, having won the right to govern Monday Night RAW after losing to the Undertaker (!), outright told his predecessor and blood sibling, whose breasts he once described as cute (!), that Monday Night RAW sucked.

You didn't spit your little dummy in the WWE dot com comments section then, did you? Never accused Vince McMahon of kissing Dave Meltzer's aerobicised ass then, did you?

WWE has acknowledged its quite frequent awfulness longer than your writer has, and it hasn't just manifested as the odd, hasty reset. In fact, delve deep into WWE's modern history, and you will find that this sort of practice is closer to the norm; it is the strange, merry go-round way in which the main roster has functioned, or not functioned, for a very sobering amount of time.

WWE is its own biggest, snarkiest, smarkiest, toxic, biased, negative, neck-bearded critic...

As mentioned, Shane McMahon returned to WWE after a long exile on February 22, 2016.

He interrupted a ceremony - in which his sister was to be awarded the 'Vincent J. McMahon Legacy of Excellence' award - with a stark and ominous message: WWE sucks!

Those weren't too dissimilar to his own words: "You and your husband, Triple H, have really been running this company into the ground."

Ratings may have plummeted because the audience didn't need it specified that Triple H was married to Stephanie, and were "quite frankly tired of having their intelligence insulted". Incidentally, that is another occasion on which WWE admitted that they sucked sh*t, only that moment actually held some weight to it. None of this or what followed did.

Shane went on, referencing the falling stock price and ratings. The theme here was that WWE sucks, the Authority stuff was played out, and that he was here to save it - the sweeping, transformative idea behind which was to...to change the passé authority figure from heel to babyface.

But first, Shane had to defeat the Undertaker, at WrestleMania, inside Hell In A Cell, to commence his so-called 'New Era'. He lost, but his dad was suitably impressed at his willingness to die in a pseudo-sport, and he took control of RAW regardless.

Basically, everything stayed the same, except the obsequious babyfaces wrestled a bit more and there were a few less f*ck finishes.