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𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭?

[S👻 @scrapytweets]

What’s this Merino edit 😂😂🔥🔥

[Wrestle Features @WrestleFeatures]

😭😭😭😭

[blakey ♡ @BlakeMonroeWWE]

COYG ❤️🥹

[Austin Creed @AustinCreedWins]

For the past 16 years, WWE has been my home. It’s where I grew up, found myself, failed, learned, and got to live out things the younger version of me could only dream about.

When I first walked into FCW, I just wanted a chance to prove I belonged and to bring something different to professional wrestling. That chance became a life full of moments I’ll carry with me forever — WrestleMania, championships, King of the Ring, arenas around the world, and the gift of connecting with all of you by being myself.

The New Day gave me a bond with @TrueKofi and @WWEBigE that I’ll cherish for life. You believed in us, even when our ideas were wild, and because of that, we got to show people that being unapologetically yourself is a strength.

UpUpDownDown became another piece of that same mission: a place for joy, friendship, and humanity. I’m so thankful to everyone, past and present, who helped build it brick by brick.

To the locker room, producers, trainers, crew, camera teams, ring crew, everyone behind the scenes, and the props department - thank you. WWE has the most special and hardest working props department that youll ever find. Love you guys and none of this happens without you.

And to everyone who has been part of this ride: thank you for believing in me. Thank you for letting me be Xavier Woods. Thank you for giving me the confidence… to walk away as Austin Creed.

[Ibou, of Self Made @BackupHangman]

They sought mainstream coverage and acceptance. Mainstream outlets are burying the show. They do things believing it’ll attract extra casual eyeballs. Casuals on IG, TikTok, Twitter thought the show sucked.

The truth is it’s entertainment for nobody except soulless content creators that attend the event as a show of status. And media partners.

Stephen A has to sit there and pretend to know and care about pro wrestling while his alleged favorite team was playing a playoff game. Remember this when he makes severe, declarative takes on First Take about the NBA playoffs.

It’s a 4 hour ad grab. They’ve even forgone video packages in the name of more ads. They know the audience is a bunch of suckers. You have WWE fans paying $40 to watch this event and defending commercials, you can’t help these people.

WWE has always been about the pomp and circumstance, the pageantry, the theatrics, but it always did its brand of entertainment within the confines of a wrestling promotion. At present, it has never ever felt like less of a wrestling promotion.

I don’t say this because it brings me joy to say, I’m a big fan of numerous talents on the roster. I say it, because it is so blatantly the truth now, and there’s no revoking of access that any company can dangle over me that’ll discourage me from being honest.

Not only is it not actually for the casuals or the hardcores, it’s not even for the wrestlers themselves. I actually feel bad for the talent who still dream of getting their big wrestlemania stage appearance and match. The people on that undercard were background actors. Outside of your top guys, the stars of the show were Hulk Hogan, Wheatley’s American Vodka, RAM Trucks, Minute Maid, and Fanatics.

It’s not going to get better. The people that run this operation are all focused on preserving their backs and making sure the money continues to roll in at the same rate and they’ll do whatever they need to get there, even if it means an extra ad where video packages used to be. Ads where a charming backstage segment used to be.

It’s not for you or me, it’s a ruse. The undercard talent only get to have actual matches on the TVs and the big show hits you over the head that the TV doesn’t actually matter. You’re insulted for caring and paying attention because the TV stories are incongruous with the things that happen on the big show.

In past bad eras of WWE, it was bad wrestling produced by wrestling minds. This is something entirely different. To describe it as a facsimile of wrestling would be too charitable to its proximity to pro wrestling. It is a dystopian, synthetic, cynical, corporatized, vaguely similar recreation of a sports entertainment product and it’s produced by businessmen that’ll free their hands of it and dump it off to the next sucker that’ll buy it the first chance they get.

[RAB FLORENCE @robertflorence]

So, the new (and probably future) WWE Wrestlemania.
You cannot broadcast wrestling like it’s a sport. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what pro wrestling is and what pro wrestling fans want.
Sport fans will suffer extended advertising segments because they are invested in the result - and the anticipation of that result. In sport the result is everything. You’ll wade through all kinds of slop to find out who’s making history this time.
Wrestling fans are fans of stories! We want a backstory we can believe in, all the bells and whistles for the final chapter (no pre-match video package? REALLY?) and we want a satisfying payoff from bell to bell. We want good, well told stories, in the ring and out. And plenty of them! You think we’ll keep tuning in just to find out “who wins?”
Good luck with that one.

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

By the way I thought the final 3 was epic and I'm really happy for Liv, she deserves it

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Becky's treatment is baffling. Objectively one of the biggest women's stars of the past 10 years being eliminated early for the sake of what? A mini-push for a mid-card veteran? I don't get it

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Charlotte mentioning the 4HW is all I needed to hear 🥰 #NXTHomecoming

[𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐕𝐞𝐧 @WrestlingCovers]

THEY EXECUTED THIS PERFECTLY!! #WWENXT

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

I can never watch wrestling without acknowledging that it's ultimately just a bunch of highly skilled and brave athletes putting their bodies on the line for our entertainment. 99% of things will go well during a live show, but unskilled, cowardly viewers will focus on the 1%

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Logged in to find whiners hating on Nikki Bella/Becky Lynch for a spot that was one of the best moments of the night for me, I love when unintentional spontaneity adds to the realism

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Charlotte won a title and people are fine with it

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Bayley is now the only horsewoman without a title

[ Hassan 🇪🇬  @HHHsSon]

I was forced to do this 🤣 not my fault he was next

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Nice blind ranking @HHHsSon 🫣

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Update your website @WWE

[ Hassan 🇪🇬  @HHHsSon]

Totally! As Chelsea Green being your new no.1! 🙌🏼🤫

[Ⓢⓗⓐⓝⓔ @horsewooman]

Life is good :)