(21 Jul 2014, 4:25 pm)AdamY wrote This hits the nail on the head. At the end of the day wrestling is low-brow entertainment. It's carny in every sense of the word. Wrestling should not under any circumstance be considered a cultural critique on any major international event - it's there to make money. And, as wrestling is based on generating conflict, it is that conflict that draws punters in; a tried and tested formula which is unlikely to change as long as wrestling exists.
As for the Daily Mail.
Who cares what they think. The media feeds on conflict as, like wrestling, it helps to sell the product. You can draw a lot of parallels between media and wrestling. Maybe those in glass-houses shouldn't throw stones!
1 thing I must say, I may not agree with WWE on some of there storylines, and there has been some pretty distasteful/controversial stories while I have watched, necrophilia (Katie Vick), Mae Young and Mark Henry's baby hand, Pillmans got a gun, severing Val Venis' pee pee and Vince once even mentioned an incest storyline where he or Shane would be daddy to one of Stephs kids, even things like Vince making people kiss his bare arse or treating women like dogs (literally)
The one reason I always liked WWE was because of it's edgy/gritty content, it always left me thinking "what will they do next week'
I personally think Vince is a genius, who does not care about what people think and is not scared to be controversial, I reckon most people who moan about him are closet fans and will watch regardless to see what they do next.
The Lana/Rusev storyline is a storm in a teacup, and she has been saying the same thing for months, Putin has had his head on every titantron across North America, she spouts the same spiel every week, I still say she is referring to the Ukraine conflict as a whole with MH17 being a tragic event in the conflict