7 Reasons Why Lucha Underground Is Way Better Than WWE

3. Originality

If there is one word that would sum up WWE today it is the word €˜stale€™. Every single aspect of WWE€™s production is stale, whether it be aesthetics, in ring work, promos, talent, set design, vignettes, storylines, or announcing. WWE today is as stale as it was in the mid-1990s, before Vince Russo called Vince McMahon out on just how awful his television programming was, and just how mind blowing it was that a company with that kind of resource could produce something so woeful. Lucha has learned from this and has done everything it can to be different from WWE, while being exponentially more entertaining, and truer to the idea of entertainment than WWE could ever be. You€™ve probably already heard about the strikingly cinematic vignettes that Lucha Underground has been using since they were established (and which TNA have hinted they will be trying to mimic soon). And while these vignettes can be surprising for the first time viewer, they become very enjoyable, very quickly. It€™s not simply the fact that they are so beautifully produced, and that you can see the influence of Robert Rodriguez all over them, but it€™s the fact that they aren€™t insulting to your intelligence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XXDtu8tsk Lucha Underground is a wrestling show, and wrestling is a pre-determined scripted form of sport designed to showcase athleticism. So rather than inexplicably trying to pretend this isn€™t the case, Lucha Underground has embraced this fact, and has thus gone out of their way to produce segments that are gripping and beautifully produced, rather than simply having a wrestler trying to be an actor while a single camera awkwardly captures every moment of their cringe inducing dialogue (that is apparently meant to be realistic). Lucha Underground truly is television entertainment in a way that neither Vince McMahon nor Kevin Dunn could really have envisioned. And even if you were just to ignore the fact that the segments aren€™t intelligence insulting or cringe inducing awful, the fact of the matter is that their originality alone makes them stand out amongst a crowded market place dominated by WWE and third rate federations trying to mimic WWE with no success.