WWE Banned List - Why You Can't Say These 23 Terms

16. "Backstage"

Mandy Rose Otis
WWE.com

The sheet also stipulates that "backstage" should be replaced by either "in the back" or something generic like, "in the locker room area". This is likely due to the 'stage' part of the word, and the implied suggestion that WWE is theatre performance rather than serious sports combat action, dude.

Wrestling is bloody weird, isn't it? Kayfabe is totally dead, and yet the industry occasionally clings on to remnants of it like the world would implode without such pretence.

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