10 Totally Stupid Things WWE Has ALREADY DONE Since WrestleMania 34
3. Running It Into The Ground
How are those within the most successful wrestling company in history such specialists in failure?
Paul Heyman was famously the master of exploiting positives and masking weaknesses of all his talents whenever possible. He aimed both to serve and surprise an audience more in-the-know than any other in the industry, and did so with incredible aplomb. Few looked like world-beaters on a global stage if and when they earned huge-money deals with WWE, but in a Philadelphia bingo hall, they were godlike.
At Greatest Royal Rumble, Titus O'Neil fell on his f*cking face. It didn't originally appear on camera, though O'Neil himself not appearing in the ring as the announcers p*ssed themselves couldn't shroud that something odd had happened.
Replays confirmed it. Replays. Opportunities for the viewing audience not just to get a taste of a tragic reality, but feast upon it. The company has below zero respect for the coldest performers on the show, and are luckily so heavy-handed that they're capable of killing everybody else's fun just by persistently acknowledging it.
Titus O'Neil slipped over again on Monday Night Raw because of course he did. Tripping under the ring might well get Titus over inside it, but that alone speaks to internal mechanisms more fragile than O'Neil's own wobbly legs.