10 Times WWE Narrowly Avoided Disaster

In which Vince McMahon is saved from himself.

Vince McMahon
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WWE is botch-proof in 2021.

To put into perspective just how botch-proof WWE is, perhaps a more accurate way of putting it is "WWE is so rich and the key television marketplace so desperate that they can f*ck up every last merch-selling babyface and make them look like infant-weak geeks, and they'd still come up sucking a pair of t*ts in a barrel of thumbs".

The age of rights fees has allowed the company to make the exact sort of mistakes that have nuked other wrestling promotions over the years and receive unprecedented financial reward for being absolutely f*cking useless. The mistakes WWE narrowly avoided in the past - as you'll read about here - could be repeated, and nowt would matter. Vince McMahon could bury an entire, ready-made generation of over talent tomorrow, and WWE will still be here. This isn't hyperbole; the mad lad did it two days a week between 2015 and 2021.

In even better news for the promotion, the "morally conscious" mainstream doesn't care about it, which in turn allows Vince to portray certain ethnic talents as punchlines and portray woman as whopper-t*tted airheads who don't give a sh*t about anything but an airbrush.

This is a multi-part story, in effect, of how WWE avoids getting in its own diabolical way...

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!