{"id":47259,"date":"2018-10-27T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=47259"},"modified":"2018-10-27T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T22:45:26","slug":"pruetts-blog-wwe-evolution-crown-jewel-and-the-hypocrisy-of-incremental-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2018\/10\/27\/pruetts-blog-wwe-evolution-crown-jewel-and-the-hypocrisy-of-incremental-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruett\u2019s Blog &#8211; WWE Evolution, Crown Jewel, and the hypocrisy of incremental progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-2152046001\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><b>By Will Pruett<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, ProWrestling.net Senior Staffer (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itswilltime\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@itswilltime<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WWE has run 332 pay-per-view events in their history. In that time, 116 of those events have not featured a woman on the card. About 36% of WWE pay-per-views have only featured men wrestling. On Sunday, WWE will make a small gesture of equality for women with WWE Evolution, their first ever all women\u2019s pay-per-view, happening 33 years after their first all male pay-per-view. 36% of WWE\u2019s major shows have been all male. WWE will attempt to mask the many years of damage they\u2019ve done by making 0.3% of their pay-per-views all female. WWE wants us to believe this is the progressive future we\u2019ve hoped for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critical as I am, I am excited for WWE Evolution. Just like women main eventing a pay-per-view, Raw, Smackdown, or having (a fantastic) Royal Rumble match, I am conditioned to take little bits of progress and celebrate them. I tend to deride those who don\u2019t appreciate WWE\u2019s fawning language of \u201chistory being made\u201d every time a Women\u2019s Championship contract signing closes the show. Why is this? Why do I take what meager scraps impossibly approaching gender equality I\u2019m given and celebrate them?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I became obsessed with wrestling when I was in middle school. It was the height of the Attitude Era and women on TV were regularly treated as sex objects. I grew up with that. I grew up seeing feuds end in dress-stripping matches, hearing commentators verbally sexually harass women so often it was commonplace, and being far too comfortable with all of it. Like most humans, I did grow up though. I saw how this is a larger issue in society. I saw how the fight for equality for women was not over. I recognized that women didn\u2019t even have equal protection in the constitution of the United States. While I saw WWE\u2019s horrendous treatment of women, I saw that the world was not much better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, when good things happened, I celebrated. Seeing Sasha Banks and Bayley have the best and most emotional match in NXT history, I sat amazed. Sitting in the stadium when WWE announced that they would have a Women\u2019s Championship instead of a Diva\u2019s Championship at WrestleMania 32, my eyes filled with tears. Watching Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, and Sasha Banks had a real main event caliber match at that same show, those tears were streaming down my face. I took the spoon-fed bits of progress I was given and lapped them up. Why wouldn\u2019t I? We had been given a regressive and disgusting vision of half of society for so long.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I tried my best to celebrate these accomplishments while always remembering WWE created the situation that made them accomplishments at all. In 1985, WWE could have decided that 50% of their pay-per-views would feature women. WWE could have made an effort at gender equality far earlier in their history. WWE could have chosen not to call women \u201cDivas\u201d in an effort to brand them with negativity. Vince McMahon always had the power and ability to erase the gender gap in WWE, but he has never chosen to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I chose to embrace WWE\u2019s vision of incremental progress, because it was progress and we were starved for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week, as we heard WWE was still planning to hold their 117th all male pay-per-view event, this time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia just weeks after agents working for said kingdom brutally killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, I was dumbfounded. I know WWE cares a lot about money, but do human rights really mean so little? They are choosing to do business with a murderous regime in order to increase their corporate bottom line. This is unconscionable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WWE would like to brand themselves as going to Saudi Arabia to help move along \u201cprogress\u201d the country has been making. They are enamored with themselves like they are warriors of culture fighting to change the world. Remember, they had to issue a public apology for accidentally rolling a video with a few seconds of footage featuring women at The Greatest Royal Rumble in April. They aren\u2019t changing the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, I\u2019ve watched WWE give more reverence, storytelling energy, and TV time to the build up the propaganda show for this murderous regime than they have for WWE Evolution. Crown Jewel has been their priority for weeks, even though Evolution is happening sooner. The late PR push they are doing this weekend doesn\u2019t excuse this.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"prowr-3855635390\" class=\"prowr-content-4 prowr-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: prowrestling_incontent_2 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"prowrestling_incontent_2\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\", slotId: \"prowrestling_incontent_2\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I now realize their incremental progress is bullshit. There is no interest in equality in WWE. There will be no attempts to truly erase the gap between genders the company itself created. Vince McMahon is not interested in changing a radically sexist system he helped perpetuate for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WWE Evolution is going to be a great show. It will have some remarkable moments, a quality commentary team, great matches, and be worth celebrating at the end. WWE will take a victory lap praising the breaking of another glass ceiling in wrestling like they weren\u2019t the ones who constructed and reinforced it. Later in the week, they\u2019ll prove to the world that they don\u2019t care about decency, morality, or equality.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will Pruett writes about wrestling and popular culture at prowrestling.net. Of interest to him are diversity in wrestling and wrestling as a theatrical art form. To see his video content <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfMU6sUZAYG8YeYzoOgEQrQ\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">subscribe to his YouTube channel<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To contact, check him out on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/itswilltime\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter @itswilltime<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, leave a comment,\u00a0or email him at <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:itswilltime@gmail.com\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">itswilltime@gmail.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Check below for the latest Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast with Jason Powell and guest Jerry Lynn.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: solid 1px #dedede;\" src=\"https:\/\/app.stitcher.com\/splayer\/f\/180116\/56883150\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"prowr-2712732072\" class=\"prowr-after-content prowr-entity-placement\"><a class=\"spreaker-player\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/pwboom\" data-resource=\"show_id=3275525\" data-theme=\"light\" data-playlist=\"show\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"340px\">Listen to \"Pro Wrestling Boom Podcast\" on Spreaker.<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Will Pruett, ProWrestling.net Senior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,27,76],"tags":[2454,2455,56,101,2381,2263],"class_list":["post-47259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mustreadarticles","category-viewpoints","category-willpruett","tag-crown-jewel","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-vince-mcmahon","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-crown-jewel","tag-wwe-evolution"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pruett\u2019s Blog - WWE Evolution, Crown Jewel, and the hypocrisy of incremental progress - Pro Wrestling Dot Net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2018\/10\/27\/pruetts-blog-wwe-evolution-crown-jewel-and-the-hypocrisy-of-incremental-progress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pruett\u2019s Blog - WWE Evolution, Crown Jewel, and the hypocrisy of incremental progress - Pro Wrestling Dot Net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Will Pruett, ProWrestling.net Senior...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2018\/10\/27\/pruetts-blog-wwe-evolution-crown-jewel-and-the-hypocrisy-of-incremental-progress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pro Wrestling Dot Net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-10-27T15:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-10-27T22:45:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2018\/09\/wweevolution.png?fit=400%2C400&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Will Pruett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Will Pruett\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/prowrestling.net\\\/site\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/27\\\/pruetts-blog-wwe-evolution-crown-jewel-and-the-hypocrisy-of-incremental-progress\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/prowrestling.net\\\/site\\\/2018\\\/10\\\/27\\\/pruetts-blog-wwe-evolution-crown-jewel-and-the-hypocrisy-of-incremental-progress\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Will Pruett\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/prowrestling.net\\\/site\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/18b8715fbf4523811238ea1695047f37\"},\"headline\":\"Pruett\u2019s Blog &#8211; 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