10 Times WWE Directly Insulted Your Intelligence

2. The Invisible Camera

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Tony Khan's pet peeve and WWE's old reliable, the unseen cameras of the backstage area have been fixtures on Raw and SmackDown for over 20 years now and they still really shouldn't be - picking at this loose thread unravels a sizeable portion of everything that happens on Monday Night Raw, and that's the sort of scrutiny the show simply couldn't absorb.

It's a shame too, because when the company actually considers how to involve cameramen backstage, the end product is better for it. Ahead of his retirement match against Triple H at WrestleMania, Batista violently bullied a camera operator to come with him as he revealed the brutal beating he'd dished out to Ric Flair. Just over 20 years earlier, Diesel dragged one of the guys filming a match all the way to the back so he could make sure somebody caught him obliterating The Undertaker's casket with an axe.

WWE has two choices - either find ways to make the segments make sense, or simply have less things happen there. For all of the insufferable praise AEW has received for every little thing, this could be a huge industry-wide change forced through if they continue to highlight the silliness of the scene.

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