Long-time wrestle watchers know WWE Superstars™ have peculiar ways of watching television backstage at Raw and SmackDown. The awkward poses are ostensibly to keep the performer and the monitor clearly visible. They’ve also become a running joke with fans and people inside the business.
Doing my best to give back to the biz & teach these @youngbucks how to do TV.
— MATT HARDY (@MATTHARDYBRAND) October 14, 2020
I’m motivated to help teach all the @AEW performers the way the biz REALLY works - Especially those who aren’t familiar with the "old school" ways. pic.twitter.com/WNuYccDbGu
We’ve seen wrestlers sports entertainers get around this Vince McMahon fetish from time to time. Head of the Table that he is, Universal champion Roman Reigns will sometimes have a big black leather chair brought in so he can at least be comfortable while he watches prospective challengers at strange angles.
On Raw last night (Oct. 25), we saw how WWE champ Big E does it. The answer is, of course, as only he can...
#WWEChampion @WWEBigE is watching this #LadderMatch with much intrigue!#WWERaw pic.twitter.com/Nfss8Gyidi
— WWE (@WWE) October 26, 2021
Sure, it’s reminiscent of the way Matt Hardy showed The Young Bucks how to do it. But did Matt & Nick Jackson flex their pecs like Large Epsilon? Pshaw... as if they even could.
Nope. E is one of a kind. And he’s our WWE champion.