World Wrestling Entertainment

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Originally Posted by Slik WWE makes so much more sense when you just accept that literally everything they do is simply to fulfil contractually mandated content hours and has no other purpose. — Garrett Kidney (@garrettkidney) April 6, 2021

I can’t remember who said it but a recently departed female WWE talent made an observation that the WWE no longer invests time into character development for their wrestlers because stakeholders want immediate results and so this often presents a conflict of interest. I’m wondering if a lot of the WWE’s woes, from a quality standpoint, stems from their decision from having gone public?

I also wonder as to what’s really going on down at the WWE Performance Center. Are the wrestlers actually being taught about in-ring psychology, the art of selling, and telling a story to the fans? They likely are but I’m just not seeing this translate onto the main shows. Watching wrestling these days almost feels like I’m watching figure skating. It’s a shame because the actual wrestlers are far more athletic than their predecessors.