By Matthew Klink (@klinkmatt)

October 13, 2018

So…if you haven’t seen the dumb headlines, Triple H is quoted as saying Vince McMahon hasn’t watched a full episode of NXT. In an obvious use of eliminating context to create headlines and click bait, the “journalist” who started all of this controversy was just trying to play off of our hate for the WWE, our frustration with creative, and our disdain for Vince McMahon. Without doing any research ourselves (as wrestling fans) a large majority of us are always looking for more reason to hate the WWE, its followers, and its product. This was just a great way to lie to those people to get them revved up. Dumb dumb dumb…

If you read the article from the Sun, (which I highly recommend you all start doing) the quote clearly states that he watches the matches and absorbs the arc and story lines. He’s just been in the business so long, he doesn’t need to see a match from beginning to end. That doesn’t mean that he purposefully skips every match or that he doesn’t watch big matches from start to finish. All Triple H meant, with his comment, was that Vince McMahon doesn’t sit on his couch at 8 pm on Wednesdays, waiting for the next episode to start and then continue to sit in one spot for the next hour hoping to find out who attacked Aleister Black.

Furthermore, former WWE writer Tom Casiello stated that he has sat gorilla with Vince McMahon for entire episodes of NXT. We also have Vince McMahon in televised spots during big NXT shows, not only observing, but working in production. So whatever Triple H said was an exaggeration and now we know his hyperbole was an overstatement.

What was the point of alerting my audience to this? Well…for one…I did about 2 minutes of research to discover this was all a farce. And two…I don’t want any of you to lose sight of the real issue facing the WWE right now: THEY ARE (allegedly) TAKING BLOOD MONEY FOR THE CROWN JEWEL!

I’ve already gotten messages of “stick to wrestling” in my mentioning of the murder of the Washington Post Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. But that is exactly what I’m doing. I am sticking to the defense of the sport, past time, and performance art that I care for so much. I don’t want to have to apologize anymore for an art that people think I don’t realize is fake. And I especially don’t want to have to apologize for my art that is soon going to be working alongside the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohamed bin Salman. While so many companies have walked away from their questionable activities…the WWE waits for a verdict.

If you go back and read through my other blog posts, I’ve always asked the WWE to be better! Be more creative, be more honest, be what wrestling fans truly deserve. However, its not enough to ask the WWE to be better. We need to be better. Those who cover the WWE need to be better. We can’t expect the WWE to give us quality content when we’re all willing to eat up dialogue like this. Dialogue that is meant to distract us from WWE’s true horrors and atrocities.

The WWE has a lot to answer for in the next few weeks. Lets stay focused on those matters and ignore the ones that don’t.

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