Figure Four Weekly 4/10/2017: ESPN’s complicated relationship with WWE

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As Mauro Ranallo’s absence from the SmackDown broadcast booth nears a month and may become permanent, concerns about the legitimacy of ESPN’s coverage of WWE have again been raised.

Singling out ESPN from a group of mainstream media outlets that provide similarly toothless reporting probably isn’t entirely fair, but the prominence of ESPN and their expanding relationship with WWE has made it so they will be criticized every time they fail to give a story that is critical of WWE the attention that it deserves.

ESPN was on location at WrestleMania for a second year in a row in Orlando. They launched a WWE-centric section of their website last August and continue to fill it with content daily.

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