6 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE WrestleMania 37 - Night 1

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4. Navel-Gazing Award

NWO Hall Of Fame
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It’s bad enough that WWE insists on having an award named after the Ultimate Warrior that is supposed to be presented to inspiring people who make a difference in their community, when there’s no evidence that Warrior was anything like that during his lifetime.

But then to turn around after a year in which there have been countless local heroes who have persevered during a global pandemic and an economic recession, and give this award to a company man in Titus O’Neil? Come on.

This isn’t to say that Titus isn’t a good guy – quite the opposite. But WWE created this award ostensibly to honor others outside the company for their contributions. And then they gave it to a guy on the payroll for “putting smiles on faces” in his role with the company.

WWE couldn’t have found someone who runs a clinic or has provided care to COVID patients or runs a soup kitchen? No disrespect to Titus, but there are so many deserving people out there, and this just made an already questionable award feel cheaper.

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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.