Why WWE Is In For A Rude Awakening
Bizarro World is a place where the fans boo who they would normally cheer and cheer who they would normally boo. And - don't mind those clenching teeth - it's great. We love Bizarro World, Maggle!
Really, the ThunderDome is so ideal for WWE that it seems they're only moving away from it because they feel they must. It's not as if live events drive revenue to any significant extent in 2021. The arm actually lost money, pre-pandemic. Running RAW and SmackDown in a residency with zero bubble-bursting fans to ruin Vince McMahon's plans is his utopia, manifested. The ThunderDome, the backdrop against which WWE scored record profits, is anti-Bizarro World. It is a magical place where Vince can *clears water from his teeth* make movies, unperturbed.
But are WWE returning to Bizarro World?
Bizarro World might be a relic: an echo of a time in which the complexion of the WWE audience was completely different. Michael Cole used to fake-laugh through the reactions in a transparent bid to sell fans at home on the idea that fans in the arena were in a mischievous mood. In the reality WWE cannot sanction, those fans were the most committed. They had travelled stateside at great expense to revel in WWE - or, as the 2010s took hold, the WWE they wanted WWE to be.
Defiance swept through WWE during that decade.
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