#7 ‘Title Shot’
There’s a story circulating that Mick Foley witnessed Braun Strowman getting yelled at by Vince McMahon for using a banned phrase recently. That phrase happened to be ‘title shot’, and Mr McMahon told him, quite angrily, that the proper phrase is ‘title MATCH’.
This is just one example of Vince’s overemphasis of tiny details going off the rails. The logic behind this seems to be that since Vince wants his Superstars to be portrayed as larger than life individuals, he wants to separate them from ordinary people.
To that end, ordinary people get ‘shots’ at something, while only Vince’s Superstars can have ‘matches’ for something.
The problem with this mentality is that it makes it harder for the audience to relate to the wrestlers in front of them. The whole point of fans wanting to invest in a wrestler emotionally is if they can relate to those wrestlers in some way.
By using more exclusive language that makes the wrestlers seem more ‘distinct’ from ordinary people, it becomes harder for ordinary fans to care about these people.
It’s almost like how politicians try to use ‘laymen’s terms’ when talking about issues in order to convince voters to get behind them. Vince is taking the opposite approach, using more unnecessarily complicated language to tell the stories in the twisted universe of WWE over which he reigns supreme.
This seems to be nothing more than semantics, but ordinary people use the word ‘shot’ more than ‘match’.
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