WWE is not a place you want your favourite wrestlers to go, if they're not there already. WWE is not a place where those favourites will definitely have a great wrestling match because they are great wrestlers. WWE is not a place where the biggest show guarantees the biggest battle, or even the last one, or the only one.
WWE is all the opposites. WWE is the place where your favourite wrestlers have to become something else to thrive. WWE is the place where your favourites have great wrestling matches in spite of the influences around them. WWE is a place where the biggest show guarantees the first battle, and often not even a clean one. WWE is a place where AJ Styles will never stop getting hoofed in the jaffers. WWE is a place where a "dream" becomes a living nightmare that takes a minimum of two pay-per-views to wake up from.
AJ Styles was considered a modern day Shawn Michaels, but saw his show stopped month after month against Shinsuke Nakamura.
Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 8 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but 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 in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 62,000,000 total downloads. Within the podcasting space, he also co-hosts Benno & Hamflett, In Your House! and Podcast Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Podcast. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, Fightful, POST Wrestling, GRAPPL, GCP, Poisonrana and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, London and Cardiff. 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 sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett
