WWE Rumors: Oh great, now there’s another banned phrase?
Vince McMahon loves banning random words and phrases almost as much as he loves money, and the latest WWE Rumors state there’s another phrase he’s nixing from programming.
WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon lives in his own little bizarro world of “steak wraps” and corporate greed, and one of his bizarre quirks is banning words that literally everyone else uses in professional wrestling.
Belt? No! It’s a title, damn it! Wrestlers? Wrestlers?!!! They are superstars, damn it!
And now, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, via Randall Ortman’s ‘Rumor Roundup’ on Cageside Seats, Vince has banned yet another phrase from WWE television.
“Non-title” is no longer allowed.
Yeah, that’s right. So when a champion has a match with someone else that isn’t for the title – and it’s usually one they lose to set up a LATER title match – it cannot be advertised as such. Because you can’t say “non-title” anymore. Genius, right?
Meltzer brought it up because this issue unsurprisingly led to confusion on this past week’s episode of Monday Night Raw.
The Street Profits, comprised of Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins, are the current Raw Tag Team Champions and had another match this week on Raw against The Viking Raiders. Nobody seemed to know if the tag titles were on the line, but Meltzer clarified that it was indeed a non-title match. Again, it’s just that WWE didn’t clarify since they aren’t saying “non-title” anymore.
This new wrinkle is bound to get even more confusing, and it’s quite hilarious how Vince McMahon seems to ban words for no rhyme or reason, except perhaps to troll the hell out of his fan base.
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Meltzer could be wrong about all this, of course, or WWE could realize it’s stupid and use “non-title” again. Who knows? Maybe Vince will make up a new word! Remember the “Wild Card Rule”? Or trading for “expired draft picks”? The universe of Vinnie Mac seems like quite the strange place, though the wackiness belies insidious greed that is decidedly not funny.