7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 14th)
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7. Yellow Is The New Pink
Lets be clear: In no way is this being a negative meant to be critical of WWE raising $600,000 through Connors Cure to fight pediatric cancer. That is an extremely noble effort and the company deserves kudos for this charity work. However, knowing that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this means were in for two straight months of WWE patting itself on the back for how awesome it is for fighting against some form of cancer. This month, the middle ring rope is yellow, and next month, it will likely be pink again. Well have to endure testimonials and packages that take you out of the moment, breaking the fourth wall of the wrestling universe. We saw this Monday night, with heels Stephanie McMahon and Triple H plugging Connors Cure and wearing the bracelets. Theres an easy way to get around this: Put the package about WWEs charity work right at a commercial break and dont have your announcers shill it live in-between wrestling segments. It would separate things ever so slightly and make the transition a little less jarring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKXMztKBHvY And before someone says, Fans are smart enough to separate fiction from reality, ask yourself if any of your other favorite shows have actors break character in the middle of the program to plug a charity. Imagine a villain in your favorite program cutting an aside about helping fight breast cancer. It would never happen anywhere else, so why here?
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.
