9 WWE Questions With Bloc Party's Russell Lissack

8. The Current Product

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What do you like to watch now? Are you able to keep up with all of the current product with work, personal commitments etc?

"It can be hard! I do tend to skim Raw and Smackdown. Raw can be quite intolerable, but its three hours long, and I'm not sure anything can be good for three hours.

I love NXT, and the last TakeOver was still really good, but maybe less so than some of the earlier shows. They're still obviously rebuilding, but those shows are still never bad.

It can difficult depending on what we're doing though, especially trying to avoid spoilers for recent events like the Royal Rumble weekend.

With four consecutive days of content, I can get quite a backlog to try and catch up. Luckily I only know a handful of people as in to it as I am, so I make sure to tell all of them to not spoil it for me, and I have to completely keep off social media.

Even then it's tricky. Following the Rumble, a friend who doesn't even really watch wrestling sent me a small spoiler right as I was in the taxi home to watch it! It was only a little something about Brock not winning, and I didn't think he would anyway, but it's still nicer not to know."

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