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This Has Gotta Be One Of The Most Embarrassingly Bad Segments In Wrestling History

Let me make this as clear as I can possibly make it – that segment was filmed and edited, and then producers, writers, and higher-ups watched it back, decided that it did convey the storyline they were going forward with, and gave it the okay to be aired on television. That was approved to be on TV. Seriously…it wasn’t a botch, or something that had to be done live. That was what Vince McMahon deemed quality content.

Vince McMahon, quite frankly, hasn’t known quality content for many years now, and the WWE (and the wrestling business in general) will be a whole lot better off the second he’s out of it. That ain’t much of an original thought, or a new one at all. It seems to be the popular consensus among wrestling fans worldwide (excluding Saudi Arabia, who Vince treats with more respect than he does the United States). It’s gotta change soon, though, because I’m just out, and I’m not the only one. Television ratings have LITERALLY never been worse. Live attendance is so bad shows are being cancelled now on a couple days notice because they can’t even fill up 10% of an arena.

I mean…I’m going to a god damn Hootie and the Blowfish concert over SummerSlam this year. I couldn’t tell you the last time I missed SummerSlam. Maybe 2002? 2003? The WWE is just presenting an unfathomably bad product week-to-week with the most stacked/talented roster the company has ever had. There’s definitely a few diamonds in the rough that shine through, still, as all of this really doesn’t fall on the talent’s shoulders at all, but I just can’t do it anymore. I’ll continue keeping up via Twitter like I have been since pretty much WrestleMania, and I’ll check back in for NXT here and there, but I can’t possibly dedicate five plus hours of my week to a company putting on high school level productions like this.