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

5. Shooting For The Stars

Ruthless Aggression
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There's some brutal honesty buried within the bullsh*t in at least one aspect of the show - WWE were definitely going to be in bother without Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.

Twice, apparently.

Forgetting when and where they'd asked the audience for sympathy, the production team wildly assumed so little of the viewing public that they used occurrences in both 2002 and 2004 to big up the idea of a world without 'The Rattlesnake' and 'The Great One'.

This was sloppy, but also increasingly irrelevant. On the off chance this wasn't spotted by those that weren't watching at the time, the megastar revolving door is a concept the company has exploited for years now. It was a big deal the first time it happened, but more is always more and WWE simply couldn't help itself trying to heap even more praise for John Cena in his personal profile.

Cena, incidentally, was the best bit about his own show in Episode 2. He was the first to note that "Ruthless Aggression" meant sh*t all to his career in the grand scheme of things. He didn't need the closing qualifier.

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