Tuesday, August 27, 2013

The Reddit Leak Has Plugged Itself

Via r/SquaredCircle

Dolphins1925, who spoiled every WWE pay-per-view result from Elimination Chamber through Money in the Bank, is hanging up the leak game. In a statement posted to his home base in Reddit's wrestling subforum, the poster claimed that because WWE was changing finishes last minute to prevent leaks at SummerSlam, he had accomplished what he had set out to do, even if he was critical of their intent (shutting him up rather than silencing the mole). He also claimed that he was not the mole, nor did he have direct contact with said sprung leak. He knew someone who knew the spoiler within the company.

WWE still seems to be protective of their results, which is fine. The element of surprise is effective and beneficial for storytelling. Even if I wanted to see them flaunt the leaks in everyone's faces and at least for one pay-per-view tell everyone who was going to win in advance, I can see why they wouldn't want to go down that road.