Wrestling Is OBSESSED With Corruption (...And It's Got To Stop)
The worst version of one of WWE's best current gimmicks saw spooky lighting and magic powers trumping anything actually meaningful when Edge formed The Judgment Day just after WrestleMania 38.
Damian Priest had aligned with 'The Rated-R Superstar' at 'The Show Of Shows' and the pair of them added Rhea Ripley to their ranks weeks later. Priest and Ripley were freewheeling at the time, but Edge's words of supposed wisdom from his "mountain of omnipotence" (a big chair) didn't exactly make for the most convincing sales pitch. On the March 13th 2023 Raw, the Hall-Of-Famer admitted as much.
Setting up a Hell In A Cell WrestleMania match with the man that ousted him as leader of the group, Edge admitted that Finn Bálor's non-!*$% version of the group was far superior. Beyond just being good build for an impressively well built finale, this also appeared to be WWE owning the idea that searching for sub-Undertaker weirdness in 2023 simply isn't the play...
...until Asuka dribbled goo for the second time in an attempt to spook Bianca Belair ahead of their Championship match on the very same card.
It's better to only be happening once over three hours rather than over and over again on the same broadcasts, but don't think there wouldn't have been places for the aforementioned Bray Wyatt/Uncle Howdy/Alexa Bliss triumvirate had all that not been thrown into disarray, and Valhalla's new trick just happens to reside on Fridays rather than Mondays. Nikki Cross shambling about might have a Sanity-related purpose but if it doesn't, she's got that generic wacky-come-crazy demeanour the company have always liked, and that's only ever a hop, skip and a jump away from her being cursed by an updated reincarnation of Papa Shango.
It's no better in developmental either. On NXT, they are prepping them for main roster corruption!
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