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4. WWE's Flagship Show Continues To Be Terrible

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Hack Creative Writer: *Strokes chin during creative meeting, wondering just how to piss off and alienate fans yet further*

Fellow Hack Creative Writer: "Hey, do you know who else used to do that? Natalya's dead daddy. Let's use his corpse for heat!

In WWE, when it comes to heat, nothing is off the table. Death is very much on the table. They literally printed out a picture of Jim Neidhart and glued it to a f*cking table. Natalya cut a promo in which she cried. She's as close to Ric Flair's record as John Cena is. And then tormentor Ruby Riott interrupted.

Rewatch the YouTube clip of said segment.

Go to 2:44 and listen to the way in which Ruby says "Oh, look - Nattie's crying again." Riott's delivery will send a shooting pain through your a*sehole. It is so nasally and obnoxious that you can only deduce that she was told to deliver it as if she was the most annoying person on the planet, marginally more annoying than Lio Rush and Drake Maverick. Great TV. Great. It was more of an aural nightmare than Brie Bella's entrance theme.

But back to the table: realistically, only one of two things can happen on Sunday...neither of which are good.

1) The wooden object is driven through a table, thus cutting the picture of Neidhart in half, for Christ's sake.

2) Natalya wins, and either hugs the table (!) or respectfully rests a pair of Neidhart's own sunglasses on it. It being a gimmicked table on which her father's image is glued.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and surefire Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!