How do you guys feel about WWE embracing the fact that it's scripted and choreographed

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For past years WWE has been going with the flow of the fans since the secret been out that WWE is not 100% real even though the still take a risk to there bodies.

WWE have been showing enough but not too much .

What I mean is like when Undertaker did his Last Ride Documentary and his Hall of Fame induction when they called him Mark Callaway

I feel pretty good about them embracing the true side to their identity. How do you feel?
 

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It's nothing to give WWE a pat on the back for. They pretty much have to do it, because they are relying heavily on Social Media numbers and reach. If they'd do it, because they really want to "embrace" it, they'd work it into stories way more, than just the occasional jab at something from outside the WWE kayfabe realm.
 
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Kayfabe has been dead for 30 years. The Undertaker was really the only one to keep it.

It’s just the way the business evolved. And now with the emergence of social media, there’s no chance it can come back fully. People live their lives in front of us now.
 

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I mean lots of wrestlers - live social media through kayfabe means. WWE isn't wrestling anyway
 

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Kayfabe has been dead for 30 years. The Undertaker was really the only one to keep it.

It’s just the way the business evolved. And now with the emergence of social media, there’s no chance it can come back fully. People live their lives in front of us now.
Pretty much, though it does bother me how very few people use social media to work, too much real life stuff on there.
 
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Pretty much, though it does bother me how very few people use social media to work, too much real life stuff on there.
Some people stay in character on social media(Bayley comes to mind) but yeah for the most part is a wrap on that.

I’ll never forget a few years ago, Roman and Braun were trying to kill each other on television and a week later a picture of them at like Disney World surfaced
 

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One of the funniest instances was when Lana was eating Dolph Ziggler's tongue every week and then her engagement to Rusev made national headlines
 

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They kind of painted themselves in a corner for doing a POW angle during an actual war so I'm glad they embrace sports entertainment for what it is.
 

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Who is a prisoner of war?
 

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One of the funniest instances was when Lana was eating Dolph Ziggler's tongue every week and then her engagement to Rusev made national headlines
That shit was wild bro. Like :lmao i fucking died
 

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Oh that's just domestic kidnapping lmao I'd never compare that feud to a war :lol I thought I was missing out on a Sgt. Slaughter character lol this is just a rehash of that shitty Edge/Kane angle from 2010 where Edge kidnapped Paul Bearer
 
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Yeah, that’s not exactly a POW type thing. Just sone straight up dog napping
 

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One of the funniest instances was when Lana was eating Dolph Ziggler's tongue every week and then her engagement to Rusev made national headlines
Damn Ziggler made out with Lana, Lashley made out with Lana, The Rock one time hinted that they fucked.

WWE really went out the way to embarrass that woman
 
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