6 Ups And Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 2)

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6. Making #WWEHatesItsFans Trend

One of the worst things about WWE is that it outright seems to hate its fanbase at times. You can just feel the disdain dripping from your television screen in the way the company presents some angles or addresses the audience. Monday night, Triple H just couldn€™t help himself and had to take a dig at fans who were pissed about the end of the Royal Rumble. He compared the WWE event to the NFL€™s Super Bowl the night before, noting the controversy surrounding the American football finale. He then €œjoked€ that fan outrage had sparked a €œCancel the NFL Network€ movement, an obvious dig at those who made #CancelWWENetwork trend on Twitter for several days last week. Look, you€™re upset and we get that. You€™ve even got evidence that the Network€™s subscriptions are growing, reaching 1 million last week. But the repeated jabbing of fans like this doesn€™t help. Maybe WWE thinks that because Triple H is a heel that this is in the context of his character, but these fans probably don€™t view it that way. Still, the possibility that it€™s just WWE€™s way of making fans hate Triple H more (any heat is good heat, right?) is why this ranks so low.
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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.