10 Worst Things To Ever Happen To Wrestling Creatively
4. Booking Matches To Book Matches
This is the company that makes movies, as Vince McMahon, radiating arrogance on Beyond The Mat, famously let us know. How many movies have you seen in which an action scene just leads to an action scene just leads to an action scene?
Vince McMahon would turn a romantic comedy into a gonzo porno. And cast Stephanie as the lead. It's no wonder why the fans, announcers, Mandy Rose, Sonya Deville, every f*cker is bamboozled by this practice. It's deranged.
Often, to earn a Championship opportunity, the challenger must first defeat the champion. It's outrageous that this company hasn't folded. This booking practise ruins the prestige of the midcard titles and betrays the core tenet of promotion.
A promoter is meant to generate interest in a match. The punter is meant to get hyped about it. This is a practise executed via promos and stakes and personal conflicts, but the heady promise of a professional wrestling match is rather ruined when you - and this should be obvious but somehow isn't - have already f*cking seen it.
Lockdown, with its endless, tortuous, similar days, is the biggest challenge many of us have faced.
Vince McMahon pioneered it years ago.