8 Terrible Excuses Adults Use To Justify Watching Wrestling

3. "It's Family-Friendly Now"

Yeah, good luck with this one. It's true that in a lot of ways, the sanitised, safe-for-kiddies WWE is better than its TV-14 equivalent. There are no more godawful bra-and-panties matches that make your parents deeply ashamed of you, there's no more casual racism (there's a lot less at least) and there's fewer sights of men with their faces sliced open with razorblades. But none of that matters to a non-wrestling fan. If anything, it almost makes it worse. "What do you mean, you don't like wrestling? Children love it!!" Wrestling, to many adults, is fundamentally and permanently (a) violent (b) dumb (c) both, and the fact that's now marketed directly to children makes it an even bigger waste of their time. For those trying to convince ex-fans to return to the product, announcing that wrestling is now 'no blood, no swears' is just further confirmation that the 'cool age' of wrestling is a distance memory. A better argument would be that WWE is now more focused on actual wrestling, rather than blood-letting, babe-watching and poo-flinging. Invite someone to the fold with the promise of 'good, wholesome family fun' and they'll run a mile.