Earlier today, I came across this headline on the Inside The Ropes website, which you can check out here:
So you’re reading that headline and you figure, “Oh man. Heartbreaking end of an era? What could that possibly be? No more Hall Of Fame? No more commercials. Going back to smaller arenas? Cutting back on pyro? No chance in hell they’re bringing back the ring carts?” Clearly something terrible must have happened if we’re going to label this as “heartbreaking.” The kind of buzz word that baits people into clicking your articles.
Inside The Rope has a tendency to do this quite a bit, using very vague terms to avoid telling you what the article is all about. “42-Year-Old WWE Star Pooped Their Pants. Blames Tony Khan” or “Former WWE Champion Pissed On Wrong Side Of River” or “38-Year-Old AEW Veteran Gives Dave Meltzer A REDACTED” and so on and so forth. I mean, it’s incredible the lengths these people will go to avoid telling you what the article is about in their headlie.
And so what was this heartbreaking update on a Wrestlemania tradition that spurned curiosity?
NXT’s Stand And Deliver premium live event will air on Youtube. And it’s also taking place in St. Louis, rather than Las Vegas.
And… that’s it.
Now, for those who don’t know what the big deal is, whenever WWE holds a Wrestlemania in a city, they usually have a bunch of events. Small convention thing, the Hall Of Fame ceremony, and finally, an NXT event held at a smaller arena within the area. This year, NXT isn’t sniffing the Vegas strip and is instead going to be parked far and away from the festivities as much as possible.
Now, yeah, sure, this might be a bummer for the folks who might have wanted to be part of the Mania festivities, but on the other hand, this hardly qualifies as “heartbreaking.” I know that Shawn Michaels is running the show, but even he would balk at this blatant misuse of the word.
Also, the show airing on Youtube? Not that big a deal. NXT events use to air on PEE-COCK (in the US – the rest of the world gets it on Netflix, including the UK from which Inside The Ropes is largely based in, which makes this “heartbreaking” malarkey even more ridiculous) until the end of the contract, which is coming up soon. Maybe if the show had been reduced to a house show with no TV, then yeah, that would suck, but again, hardly a “heartbreaking” situation.
Inside The Ropes need to get their shit together. These stupid headlies are the bain of existence and need to die. Even worse, it did nothing to compel me to watch this NXT show that I had no interest in watching the first place. But hey, I gave those assholes a click, so good on them.
Too bad I had an ad-blocker enabled.
Take that, your Brits.
P.S. Also referring to a low-level WWE Championship on a show that only three people know exists a “top WWE Championship” is REALLY stretching things. What’s next? Are we going to call Vic Joseph a “Legendary WWE Announcer?” Who the fuck is Vic Joseph?
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