Stephanie McMahon: great human being, classy, beautiful and just loves to play an evil character, but is actually a really, really, really, super good person. Like totally awesome. Unbelievable. I realize kayfabe is pretty much dead, but at this pace why not just run opening credits saying WWE Raw: Starring Miroslav Barnyashev as Rusev, Ronnie Killings as R-Truth, Dustin Runnels as Goldust and Stephanie McMahon as Stephanie McMcahon! Seriously, why not just give up and treat Raw as a regular show if theyre going to do stuff like showing the biggest heel in the company winning a humanitarian award? Wrestling relies on fans getting worked up to see a heel get theirs. Wrestling is its own beast, but WWE wants to make it like any other show, which doesnt work. You can't show villains being good people, that defeats the purpose of literally everything they are trying to accomplish. Thats part of why ratings keep falling, and why network subscriptions are underwhelming. Its just too hard to get invested when WWE doesnt care to protect their own reality. Stephanies award could have been saved for WWE.com, but it was announced on-air by Michael Cole! Imagine Abdullah the Butcher in a big program with Bruiser Brody and the announcers stopping to tell us that he won a humanitarian award.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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