6 Ups And 6 Downs For WWE Day 1

5. WTF Is A ‘Premium Live Event'?

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If you weren’t paying attention at the outset of the PPV, Michael Cole welcomed us to Day 1, “WWE’s first premium live event of the year.”

Wait, what?

Yep, in true WWE fashion, they’ve gone and tried to rebrand a term, and failed horribly. It’s understandable that they don’t want to use the term “pay-per-view” any longer since the events mostly air via a streaming service rather than the traditional TV PPV.

And really, this isn’t a big deal at all, but it’s just another in a long line of crappy WWE jargon: it’s not “title match,” it’s “championship opportunity”; it’s not “fans,” it’s “WWE Universe”; it’s not “hospital,” it’s “local medical facility”; it’s not “wrestler,” it’s “competitor.”

So, what are Raw and SmackDown? “Standard live events”?

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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.