JBL: Why Vince McMahon created the term "WWE Universe"

[@JLPPRODUCTIONS-ql4ur]

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[@JarodJoseph]

Hahaha

[@-Toaster-]

But why?

[@GutturalReef]

Respect to Bradshaw for those Olympic style Will Ospreay acrobatic maneuvers he's pulling to defend Vince and not using "wrestling" to promote WRESTLING!!!!!

[@NateNizzle]

It's really not wrestling though. Wrestling has changed from what we knew it to be back in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

[@thedogwoods5716]

@@NateNizzlewrestling is wrestling. Everything evolves

[@chrisbgoodv2178]

​@@thedogwoods5716The WWE has not "evolved". It has wilfully pushed old fans out for fickle new fans, who seem to view the WWE almost like a cult.

[@jimmyju76]

everything Bradshaw is accurate and makes sense

[@PhilipBelmont]

When they started saying "WWE Universe" was when I stopped watching forever

[@jimstevens-v4f]

I get a lot of these and didn't care enough about the others, but the belt thing is baffling to me. The physical item is a belt that represents a title. As for only holding up pants, what about weightlifting belts? Belts have different uses.

[@jimmyju76]

a belt is what you use to hold up your pants, if you think everything else made sense then so should that

[@mulldrifterz6469]

Here is the problem with all this. It makes people speak unnaturally which causes more issues than it solves and most importantly takes you out of the moment. Its one of the most refreshing things in the HHH era and probably to a small degree of why WWE is doing better than it ever has. The wrestlers sound real and not robotic like they glitched out of the matrix.

[@stingrey1571]

I once thought, “Okay Vince left but he’s still secretly in charge.” Then after summerslam 2022, Roman reigns “Paul (heyman) isn’t here because he’s still in the hospital.” Yup he’s gone.

[@ranveerphukan]

Really enjoyed the JBL appearances. Hope he gets his own permanently! Also, when is Bruce returning?

[@BabyMaharaja0]

He has his own podcast

[@ranveerphukan]

@BabyMaharaja0 a wrestling one? I thought he did a business related show

[@BabyMaharaja0]

@@ranveerphukan yes a wrestling one with Gerald Brisco

[@edwinsparda7622]

As a fan who watched WWF/E from. 94 to 07 consistently. I absolutely loathed the term "WWE Universe". And I always wondered why they never referred to get the wrestlers as wrestlers. Well. There you go. It's vince. I wonder who got the idea for the awful spinner belt. But Vince pushing the company thru the times of the Wuhan virus something else.

[@NateNizzle]

That 'awful' spinner belt sold a sh!tload of replicas. So while you may laugh at the design, he laughed all the way to the bank

[@edwinsparda7622]

@NateNizzle not disagreeing with you. There's an audience for every category. I'm more of a traditionalists but if I were vince I would exploit the hell out of that demographic too and add more "bling" to it.

[@GenX6887]

My only issue with the spinner belt was when they made it the default belt. It should've been Cena's exclusive belt, just like the Smoking Skull was for Austin.

[@mikehb1989]

Great vid

[@TogonzoMedia]

Yeah, not "excuse" - "technicality" is more appropriate. Vince has been in business long enough to know that the cheapest ways to program television have always been game shows and wrestling. I think he saw how Family Feud, Price Is Right, Wheel, and Jeopardy had to shut down production for COVID and knew they'd return eventually but the WWE would be afforded no such luxury so he had to manufacture a technicality (putting on shows with a virtual audience) so that the networks didn't use COVID as a technicality to get out the TV contract. Sometimes the morally apprehensible can be ingenious for business if not compulsory to survival.

[@rickmasters4848]

Vince really did save wrestling during the pandemic

[@wc76]

I feel like it's self explanatory but Ive been wondering the actual reason why they started to call the "suicide dive" a "tope suicida" That one isnt just Vince because they use that term in every promotion now

[@MadfireMonkey]

Because you can't say suicide anymore

[@wrestlingvideoswotimade]

They're not a Universe. They're fans!

[@arcaderacer586]

Ban all words associated w/ “Rasslin”

[@GodLovesYou828]

Vince McMahon is a legend, and he deserves respects from people still and always

[@matterdaddy3363]

Premiere

[@Redesign24]

I always hated that term

[@Roger-Bacon]

Everytime i hear " wwe universe " i cringe a little.

[@rtmachine2019]

I don’t mind it I understand why people don’t like it I hate that Vince didn’t like people saying wrestling

[@GenX6887]

I cringe every time I hear it. It's so lame! Fans is good enough.

[@shadycnetwork]

​@@GenX68871 I hope you're really not Gen x because our generation is not supposed to cringe over little things like that. That's more of a modern day snowflake kind of thing. Sadly some people from my generation have become snowflakes.

[@GenX6887]

@@shadycnetwork I'm actually a 90s kid. The GenX in the name represents that era. Call it snowflake if you want, but there's always gonna be something that'll make you cringe no matter what generation you come from. Like how boomers cringe over hearing cuss words for example.

[@GenX6887]

@shadycnetwork Also, WWE universe insults the fans' intelligence.

[@SkankhuntHHH]

Too bad triple H treats the business and talent like toys

[@xUnrealWarriorx]

I think hhh is more than qualified, no one has done it at higher level than him but vkm.

[@thedogwoods5716]

Huh?

[@faizkhan99945]

​@@xUnrealWarriorxThat’s why Vince built the biggest pro wrestling company in the world, and Triple nose is just riding on the superstars, and everything Vince created

[@Y2Jerms]

I guess we really see where vince and jbl stood on things in 2020. Shame.

[@NateNizzle]

They were right though..

[@Y2Jerms]

@NateNizzle not really. It was similar, but not the same thing.

[@MichaelGeorge161]

@@Y2Jerms It was a massive scam

[@Y2Jerms]

@@MichaelGeorge161 that's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time. It very much wasn't.

[@chrisbgoodv2178]

I believe the term "universal" was really meant to remove the term "heavyweight" as well as "wrestling". When the WWE decided to put a heavyweight championship on Rey Mysterio, that was the beginning of the disrespect of heavyweights. It got even worse with pathetic physical specimens like CM Punk and Daniel Bryan.

[@leaderofnoone9087]

I feel like this comment is just you giving out about small wrestlers.

[@orangemaniabrother2232]

It got worse with wrestlers that were bigger than Rey? That doesn't add up