5 Ups And 2 Downs From WWE Mae Young Classic (Sept 5)

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2. Gushing About History

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There’s a lot to like about the three-person booth for the Mae Young Classic. Renee Young and Beth Phoenix are making history by being the first two women to call a WWE event together (with Michael Cole doing play-by-play), and they all did admirable work.

But it was the announcers’ repeated references to history and internal navel-gazing that really got annoying at certain points. Sure, we want to understand and appreciate the significance of what’s happening, but not everything is special, history-making events that much be treated with reverence. After a while, it loses its significance.

The gushing almost can be excused for the first episode of the tournament, but we’ll note it here just in case history repeats itself later.

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