10. The Audience Decides
It is only in the last few years that this started happening, but it's already one of the most irritable aspects of WWE TV. Letting the audience decide on match types, special refs, contenders and numerous other stipulations is in theory a good concept. When WWE first ran the Taboo Tuesday PPV back in 2004 it was fantastic. I really enjoyed logging on to WWE.com and having a legitimate say in the content I would consume. Fast forward 9 years and the advent of social media has made every WWE show a chance for the audience to have their say. Except it hasn't. WWE's App votes, twitter votes and other fan choice polls are all a massive sham. When WWE claims to be letting the audience decide, it is in fact a scripted angle. WWE does this by slanting its polls in a way they guarantee the victor. Take a look at the recent fan poll of who should ref the Hell in a Cell main event. Fans could pick either Booker T, Bob Backlund ... or Shawn Michaels. If by some freak way Booker T had won that vote, do you really think WWE would've not put HBK in the bout anyway? The whole thing is just pointless, and the results are arguably made up on the spot. At a recent WWE live event we had to tweet whether we wanted Fandango in a wrestling match or a dance-off. The dance-off won, despite it being loudly booed whenever it was mentioned earlier in voting. I suspect the whole fan voting thing is just an angle to boost WWE social media mentions. Social media in general has became a loathsome aspect of WWE TV. Thankfully we don't get Tout shoved down our throats as much, but twitter and 'Trending Now' is still an obsession for the Connecticut company. Get over it Vince, and please get over the "WWE App Fan Choice Angle", nobody is believing it.