Why WWE Was Just Taught A Very Serious Lesson

This was not the case.

At minimum, WWE should have applied some actual thought to the audience it was presenting the show in front of. They were not receptive to something they either didn't care about at a minimum or actively thought was lame, as most non-wrestling fans so. So make them care. Install a heel with a strong record of generating a reaction, and have that heel sh*t all over hip-hop to draw something, anything, out of that crowd. Research the promo. Cut specific gags at the expense of the performers on the show. Say Megan Thee Stallion is corrupting the nation's youth. Do something to piss the audience off and actively make them want to see the babyface kick their head in. This really isn't difficult.

None of this happened because WWE generally makes zero effort whatsoever. Instead, Angelo Dawkins defeated Chad Gable in a nothing TV match that you see every week, and Bianca Belair defeated Carmella in something equally regulation. The matches were presented without context. Like so much of WWE's output, it was just there.

The lesson learned was stark: outside of its base, the actual world does not give a single sh*t about what WWE is passing off as entertainment. This was an embarrassment. When it became apparent that the festival-goers didn't care, WWE sweetened the noise to a heavily dissonant extent on TV. The antithesis of the ThunderDome became the ThunderDome.

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