6 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (6 Jan - Results & Review)

9. Clap, Trained Seals, Clap

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Dear WWE live audience, The Rock telling you that the company has just set a record gate is not an applause line. It is merely WWE telling you that they’ve successfully pulled more money out of you than any other arena event attendees in company history.

Congratulations! You’ve forked over more money to WWE than any other group of fans in a non-stadium setting. Clap for making everyone richer!

Imagine any sports team telling its fans they spent more at a specific game than any other game in team history. How would that be an applause line? When a business boasts record profits in a year, that’s not grounds for anyone other than its shareholders and employees to cheer.

Stop falling for this. Unless you own TKO stock, you sound foolish.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.