10 Times WWE Directly Insulted Your Intelligence
4. Greatest Royal Rumble
Fresh off of winning the Tag Team Championships with a 10-year-old in his stupid 2018 WrestleMania storyline, Braun Strowman was lifting another title he'd only hold for a few hours in Saudi Arabia after winning WWE's Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia.
It provided the closing visual from one of the most uncomfortable WWE viewing experiences of all time. Defeating Triple H in an enjoyably stupid opener, John Cena cut a promo putting over the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ahead of what felt like a hundred vignettes doing exactly the same thing.
This was naked, paid-for propaganda and it was only the beginning - the company signed a ten year deal with the country's Sports Authority as part of their use of major live events to reframe the world's view of a nation not famed for its liberal arts.
WWE became part of that thanks to an alleged $50million dollars per show, burying their heads even during the controversy around murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi around the time of their 2018 Crown Jewel event headlined by a match that saw Shawn Michaels bought out of a nine year retirement.
The ugliness might be mentioned ad infinitum, but that only speaks to precisely how ugly it is.