10 Times WWE Narrowly Avoided Disaster

3. NXT 2.0 Is Simply Too Unpopular To Admonish

In theory, WWE could run depraved hardcore pornography in place of 205 Live, and nobody would know the difference except the guy whose job it is to create GIFs on social media.

Depressingly, what remains of NXT is practically right there with it in terms of "give a f*ck," and the reality of the show isn't too far removed from that joke. It's exactly the sort of show that would get absolutely ethered in mainstream outlets, were mainstream outlets remotely interested in covering it. Mandy Rose and Toxic Attraction are written by old men and only care about being attractive. Rose is NXT Women's Champion, but she's more interested in how the belt itself looks good on her. Every camera operator in that building is a voyeur whenever the faction is onscreen, not that you'd even know which building it's in. All you know, from the close-ups, is that it is located in Upskirt City.

Ikemen Jiro is made to portray a complete f*ckwit who repeats the English phrases he has learned out of context and at inopportune moments, like a sentient '80s movie object. He is barely presented as a human being. Funny how Grayson Waller isn't playing that role, no? It's not on at all.

The show is sleazy, a '90s-adjacent special that is not remotely fit for the times, but procedural re-runs thrash it, so WWE escapes the scrutiny given to more respectable properties.