The REAL Reason WWE Won’t Pay Wrestlers Healthcare

The contradictions extend to the locker room. A capitalististic dream for those willing to engage in it, WWE doesn't traditionally reward teamwork and togetherness over individual endeavour.

Kofi Kingston's recent rise serves as a rule-proving exception, but the company will now likely dine out on The New Day to bat back justified critiques of prior rank indifference towards wrestlers that didn't fill the Great White Hope brief solidified by Hulk Hogan's 1980s success. The Women's Revolution followed the same pattern - WWE repeatedly spoke of breaking molds without ever atoning for them being cast so solidly in the first place.

Last Week Tonight stumbled twice in its scathing assessment, but a limp one-liner about Roman Reigns was simply misguided rather than mishandled. To truly leave an imprint beyond rattling the organisation during WrestleMania week, the show's crack squad needed to follow up on WWE's typically-bolshy response. The company invited the crew to WrestleMania, as if that would do any f*cking good whatsoever, all whilst refuting several of the claims in a press release entitled "John Oliver Ignores Facts".

The blunt force of that title mirrors the type of chairshot that used to get recklessly thrown before WWE wisely banned the move. That went out with blading and other supposedly barbaric practices the company wanted outlawed from the industry, instead choosing to permit Brock Lesnar to spill opponents' brains all over the canvas with the point of his elbow because they want to play both sides.

It's what they always do, and that's because it's always worked.

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