9 Ups And 10 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (May 6 )

8. ‘Love To Have Fun’

lucha house party
WWE.com

This column is going to harp on WWE admitting that its ratings are in the tank, and then falling back into the same traps and tropes it always does.

WWE loves to describe its happy, positive wrestlers (who also don’t seem to take winning matches very seriously) as loving to have fun. This has been going on since the Attitude Era, when the Godfather was often described as “a fun-loving guy who loves to have fun.” (No, seriously.)

Michael Cole made sure to describe Lucha House Party thusly as they ran through a jobber team in six-man tag action, beating up one guy with repeated triple teams that was actually impressive, squashing him for the easy win.

They could have tried to reboot the luchadores as good-natured guys who get down to business in the ring, but all the announcers could do was talk about how fun-loving they are. It’s a fallback that gets used way too often to describe wrestlers without doing them any favors.

Advertisement
Contributor
Contributor

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.