25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2024
8. Apologies For The Interruption
A pathetic and flawed exercise in optics management, or a flagrant show of disdain towards the optics conversation?
Those were the two takes fans understandably had when Triple H - a booker accused of not doing right by both women and black wrestlers - booked a tag match featuring Jade Cargill, Bianca Belair, Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson to get interrupted before getting started by Kevin Owens, Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton.
It was in service of Owens' heel turn, which required something more transgressive than a planned promo segment. That Triple H selected this match for the attack to play out was surprising but not remotely shocking, not least after he made some ill-advised press conference remarks in response to the criticism just days earlier. WWE are teflon to most things during this current boom, not least considering how they are named in the lawsuit alongside Vince McMahon and John Laurinaitis, but this has stuck, and this was a prime example of how it's a grim problem completely of their own design.