So WWE put up the recent edition of Saturday Night’s Main Event on Youtube for those of us outside of the U.S. who lack the ability to watch this thing on Peacock… even though up here in Canada, we do indeed have NBC to watch this shit. Is this even on Netflix? Anyway, I gave it a watch… the show was mostly commercials, which was “absolute cinema” as the lame kids call it. And indeed, while you folks had commercials, we had a blank screen. It was truly riveting… almost as riveting as these bullriding events that are also on the WWE channel.
I realize it’s a TKO thing and all, but if I were subscribed to WWE on Youtube, I’d be wondering why the fuck am I getting videos about a sport I don’t care about? It’s bad enough that these people are deluded enough to think that the WWE/MMA crossover appeal is wider than it actually is – which is virtually nonexistent – but now who is going to watch RAW and think, “Gee whiz, you know what’d be cool? CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre in a bull riding contest.” Unless one of the bulls almost kicks one of those guys in the head and they retaliate with a Terry Funk-esque promo, there’s no appeal to this shit, folks.
Anyway, regardless of my quibbles, I saw most of the show… which was just there. Joe Tessitore and Jesse Ventura welcomed us to the show, ran down a bit of the card, and passed it on our regular announce team of Michael Cole and that fucking idiot Pat McAfee… who can go fuck himself.
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