10 Wrestling Documentaries That Accidentally Uncovered Major Scoops
10. The WWE Creative System Is More Broken Than You Realise
The 2020 WWE Network special 'Liv Forever' chronicled the evolution of Liv Morgan, and it is wild.
It is a 40 minute indictment of the creative process far more damning than any critical, independent think-piece that you've read or watched online. Like those salacious images of Morgan emerging from a bathtub dreamed up by gross old men looking to recapture the Attitude Era, the incompetence of those men is laid bare.
Presumably, the documentary was pitched in a bid to cover Liv Morgan's ascension up the women's division; after all, she was a marketable talent and had developed a cult online following.
Unfortunately, as a WWE independent contractor not named Roman Reigns, she was automatically doomed, and the cameras captured her doom - with, weirdly, no compunction. Certain fans can't abide Dave Meltzer's various reports when "plans change". They think it's a cop-out. In one staggering scene, Morgan is shown preparing for a match against Ember Moon that is cancelled literally 30 seconds before the opening bell. Morgan is distraught, but mostly mystified.
The doc instead evolves into a bizarre glimpse at WWE's staggeringly half-arsed and chaotic creative approach, in which Morgan is brought to television for no reason playing some sort of character that she hasn't got a f*cking clue about. It's 40 minutes of Liv looking around, clueless, holding not a single conversation with the absent, isolated man in charge of her career.
On the following evidence, it wouldn't have mattered if she had...