10 Totally Stupid Things WWE Has ALREADY DONE Since WrestleMania 35
7. Pissing Off Couples
People, when sharing confined spaces in one another's exclusive company, tend to boink like zoo animals.
On WWE's endless loop, the chiselled bodies and beautiful TV faces smush into one another on the regular, but since WWE is spiteful, WWE tends to separate those couples. WWE, and it really isn't as if RAW and SmackDown are unique entities that we don't project our own concepts on to, meaning there's no reason to spite the top stars especially, initially separated Andrade and Charlotte Flair as part of the Superstar Shake-Up.
This seemed particularly ill-advised; Charlotte Flair is the best women's worker on the roster, right up there with the very best irrespective of gender. She is far closer to her dad's legacy than many credit her for - many of her opponents aren't glorified broomsticks, but she does give everybody their best, most fierce match - and at 33, she could conceivably headline for another decade.
The want-away Andrade, meanwhile, was so unamused by WWE's general ambivalence that he told more than one emerging star to not bother signing. The relationship potentially tethers this marketable, dynamite performer to the company.
WWE has rectified this, for PR/morale reasons - reading between the lines of certain publication released every Thursday, Charlotte blew a gasket - but as with so much else, like onscreen narratives and the recruitment drive, this was a reactive measure.
On the subject of the Superstar Shake-Up...