I just woke up so I won't be summarizing too much of it since I'm groggy as fuck, but the last two nights of wrestling have been really good, and I'm very excited to see what this Triple H era of WWE has in store for us.
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Them calling it sports entertainment, calling the fans the WWE Universe, etc was a Vince thing, and this whole build to WrestleMania, this whole renaissance of the WWE only happened because 1) AEW is semi-viable competition for talent and 2) Triple H took over creative from Vince.
A lot of why WWE was what it was for the 15 years before Vince got forced out is because Vince would throw a fit and re-write episodes of Raw and Smackdown the day of, so shit wouldn't even make sense. The terminology thing however is entirely just a "Fuck Vince" thing.
I'm aware the why, don't care what they call it. No one in the last 20 fucking years ever said "Hey I got tickets to the sports entertainment show this Friday, want to go watch our favorite superstars in a sports entertainment match together?" It was some Vince hang up and it never bothered me, mostly because I'm always watching whatever else other than WWE post Ruthless Aggression era.
Bad take from me, shouldn't lump it with the product placements, but those irritated the hell out of me. Reminds me of that one promotion that had a big nestle crunch advert in the middle of their mat in the 90s. I can't remember the company but it was pretty damn tacky.
I think the Prime stuff makes Logan Paul an even bigger heel than he already is, considering he said it's gonna be on the mat at every PLE/PPV.
The Dude Wipes plastered everywhere, especially on the ring post where you would see it and someone's butt right on top of it, was definitely way too much.
Yea I always hated “performer” and “sports entertainer”. What made it dumber was that it was called world wrestling federation/entertainment.