10 Ways WWE Has Warped The Minds Of Fans

4. WWE Isn't The Safe Company

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The timing of this point is unfortunate, because AEW handled the Matt Hardy incident at All Out shamefully, which must be brought up here to fairly acknowledge that all wrestling is unacceptably reckless as it pertains to the welfare of talent. This may be interpreted, in light of said timing, as petulant "but-but WWE let Kairi Sane wrestle concussed!" blowback.

This isn't the case. All wrestling companies are nowhere near up to par.

But historically, somehow, WWE has fostered a reputation as the safe company chiefly because of its blanket ban on impact moves to the head, which isn't a blanket ban at all because Vince seems to not understand what a Canadian Destroyer is. Perhaps they move a bit too fast for him these days. Bless.

Before this new normal, WWE put its talent through a meat grinder on the house show loop, resulting in recent years in several injuries - statistically, more than New Japan Pro Wrestling - caused by the sort of wear and tear that doesn't much make for sexed-up social media fodder.

Earlier this year, these people didn't even think to gimmick a f*cking piano to allow Shinsuke Nakamura to crash through it with a relative degree of safety. WWE thought Daniel Bryan had a head injury once. He didn't. WWE also thought he didn't have a head injury once. He did.

Ding dong!

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