12 Reasons WWE’s Ruthless Aggression Documentary Is An Absolute Mess

6. Fantasy Vs Reality

Bruce Prichard
WWE.com

In Michael Rapaport, WWE has a literal unreliable narrator for the Ruthless Aggression docuseries, but he's at least just reading the script he's been paid to overenunciate. He leaves the meat of the story to both Bruce Prichard and Brian Gewirtz.

The difference in their tone and timbre is stark. Gewirtz is a man so gleefully and comfortably separated from the world he inhabited for so long that he can speak with a certain freedom on the realities of the situations without burying the company outright. Prichard, conversely, steers so hard in the other direction that it's hard not to imagine his entire memory not being tinted by his recent reintroduction to the fold.

Everything good he offers to his podcast is absent here - the convivial and cordial relationship with Conrad lost to a caricature of mouthpiece treading too carefully to say anything worthy of note. He was actually f*cking there - why does it feel like he's talking about the company he left in 2008?

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation for 10 years. Alongside the production of daily written, audio and video content covering WWE and AEW, he also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 35 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz" Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast and its accompanying YouTube channel, earning it top spot on the UK's wrestling podcast charts with over 10,000 episodes and 70,000,000 total downloads. He also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House!, Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast, and has guested on long-running Sunderland AFC podcast Wise Men Say. With WhatCulture, he has provided in-person coverage of some of the biggest pay-per-views and Premium Live Events in wrestling history, including WrestleMania, Survivor Series, All In & Double Or Nothing in destinations such as New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. He has also been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana, 411Mania and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in music and culture magazines The Crack, Pilot as well as Sunderland AFC's premiere fanzine A Love Supreme. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it every other Saturday at the Stadium Of Light, and at Cribs gigs nationwide.