Name a wwe production trope you hope is gone

[Lance Uppercut]

Guy cutting promo backstage, cuts to audience watching said promo on the titan tron.

It’s like they’re trying to make it look like some epic speech by showing a crowd of onlookers looking at some captivating leader

[Confused Mark Wahlberg]

At least be looking directly at the damned monitor if you're going to be watching backstage.

[Hypnosis]

No more "entrance, then a backstage segment before the opponent makes their entrance" bullshit.

[Ozman]

Hopefully the “private conversation with an obvious camera in the room” goes away.

[mcstoklasa]

I don't watch a lot anymore so don't know if these things I hate are still around.

That being said, here goes...


Phony awful fake buzzword language crap. Not talking like human beings. This is the big one. Wrestlers can't speak naturally. If they are going to mention the world championship multiple times in a promo for example, they can't say "WWE world heavyweight championship" the first time and then sometimes call it a title or the gold or whatever after. They have to call it by the full name every single time and it's unnatural.

This also goes for almost all of Vince's weird banned words list. Hate all of it. Can't stand how phony these supposed human beings can sound.

Undertaker actually said "at the ultimate thrill ride."

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Standing stock still in the middle of the ring facing the hard camera to do a promo. I understand spending 75% of the time facing the main camera. However I liked it when Austin would pace around the ring to different turnbuckles whilst cutting a promo.

Also goes for moves only being hit for that camera. Again I get it, but Big Show moving Harper and Rowan into position to the hard camera for a chokeslam is something I never forgot.

And Rybacks crappy shell shock finisher, then climbing back over his opponents to pin them in a totally stupid way just so he's facing the hard camera.

Also don't bring back Ryback ever please. Thanks.

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Crappy fake backstage areas which are clearly just one wall decorated with lights and a random TV screen and we are supposed to pretend that is like Stephanie's office.

I liked seeing actual backstage areas.

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Too many camera cuts on moves. Shaky cam etc.

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Again on the language, awful neutered commentary when Vince was in charge.

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The camera cuts

The nauseating camera cuts need to be the first thing to go and never come back lol

So far in the show I have noticed considerably less of them

[Bang Bang Bart]

Backstage interviewers need to throw back to the commentators to end segments instead of awkwardly looking off into space.

[S-Chrome]

Kill the static entrance graphics and bring back entrance videos, you craven cowards.

[Cyno]

Get rid of the weird AR shit please.

[BlackoutCreature]

I don't know if this exactly what you're talking about, but man, I hope we're done with Vince's obsession with one-name wrestlers. I still think that all stems from a crush that Vince had on Cher at some point in his youth.

[Urn Anderson]

When I used to go to live WWF or WCW shows during the Monday Night Wars era or have attended current AEW shows, they did such a great job keeping the audience hyped up during the commercials. T-shirt cannons, showing fan signs on the tron, and all that.

WWE hasn’t run a televised show in my state for over 25 years, so I was completely gobsmacked at how the production just stops dead during a commercial break. Someone will make an entrance, stand there doing nothing at all while they wait on commercials and recaps, and then their entrance music will start back up for a few seconds like no time has passed.

The few times I’ve seen it live, I am utterly convinced that this is the biggest thing that kills so many WWE crowds dead as a doornail.

[Chiral]

Hoping the entrance augmented reality CGI shit was a Kevin Dunn/Vince thing and they axe that quickly.

[Savage Gambino]

Jan 1, 2024 20:31:20 GMT -5 Ozman said:

Hopefully the “private conversation with an obvious camera in the room” goes away.

Honestly, shoutout to TNA for trying to make it work by making the backstage cam feel more voyeuristic. I don't give TNA credit for a lot, especially from that era, but that was a genuinely unique style choice.

[BRV]

Jan 1, 2024 21:16:25 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Get rid of the weird AR shit please.

The only time I think the AR graphics work are for Cody Rhodes and the Judgment Day. For whatever reason, it feels natural for those two entrances - both kind of work as an introduction before the entrance music really kicks in.

But the rest are just awful - Bianca's lips and hair, the PS3 versions of Roman Reigns and Becky Lynch, and the needless text of "Main Event Jey Uso" - they can all go.

[06vwgti]

Jan 1, 2024 19:47:09 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

No more "entrance, then a backstage segment before the opponent makes their entrance" bullshit.

I still can't believe they had Sami out there at 9:30 only to start a match at 9:50. Just stupid

[Bang Bang Bart]

Jan 2, 2024 10:42:02 GMT -5 BRV said:

Jan 1, 2024 21:16:25 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Get rid of the weird AR shit please.

The only time I think the AR graphics work are for Cody Rhodes and the Judgment Day. For whatever reason, it feels natural for those two entrances - both kind of work as an introduction before the entrance music really kicks in.

But the rest are just awful - Bianca's lips and hair, the PS3 versions of Roman Reigns and Becky Lynch, and the needless text of "Main Event Jey Uso" - they can all go.

It works for Cody since it’s just his logo/neck tat being used for the ar graphics and something like a CG statue of him or whatever.

[Hypnosis]

Jan 2, 2024 10:48:30 GMT -5 06vwgti said:

Jan 1, 2024 19:47:09 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

No more "entrance, then a backstage segment before the opponent makes their entrance" bullshit.

I still can't believe they had Sami out there at 9:30 only to start a match at 9:50. Just stupid

Peak Dunn stupidity.

(Although I guess you could say that for a lot of what he did with production in the past decade.)