The thing with WWE is I think for 95 percent of their work which is on normal tv and trying to be children friendly they almost alway default to the cutaway for actual violence. I think afterwords they can see something is okay but you can tell they are actively trying to circumvent the argument of lingering on violence by making the direction far more snappy. I guess in a PPV setting they can be freer but it’s obviously going to have to undo maybe 12 shows of conservative muscle memory for every PPV.

As someone who watches 5 hours of their TV product a week, I don't think that's really true crayon.

Aye, they do that a lot.

I don't think there's a hard and fast rule for it, because that would require more coordination and scripting than is humanly possible, but the current vogue does certainly seem to be to cut angles in the middle of a bump.
This will be for a multitude of reasons. It's more dynamic. You're hopefully cutting to the optimal angle that sells the bump. Avoiding obvious botches. That sort of thing. 
Even with it's "scripted" nature, it's an incredibly hard thing to cover well, and the crews generally do an incredible job. They're probably also shooting tighter in the Thunderdome to mask the lack of crowd, but the tighter you shoot, the greater the chance of missing important stuff as it happens. The Rumble would be the obvious worst case scenario for this as there is so much going on simultaneously.
All that being said, last night, for whatever reasons, they were just a bit off.

This may not be 100% correct, but the gist is The Fiend is currently dead but can still possess Alexa.

Really fun catch up read, this thread!  Really good show on the whole too.  

Geez I can't believe Bobby Lashley and Torrie Wilson are 44 and 45 respectively.  But the king of not ageing has to be R Truth wtf

Haha!

Are we at the point of the convo the weird daft zooms in and out at the point of a bump are being brought up? Cos that is the single reason I just cannot watch eh rasslin, specifically wwe, any more. Feel like I'm going to be sick with it. I dunno when it happened, mid-2000s I guess, but they never used to do it.

I dunno, maybe someone less facetious than I can break it down.

Right, guy does a suplex, when the other guy hits the canvas it's quick zooms in and out from the cameraman on the floor. Every time, it happens. Maybe it hasn't for a while, I dunno. But it's so annoying.

Did Sting always come to the ring in a velvet bathrobe?

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Right, guy does a suplex, when the other guy hits the canvas it's quick zooms in and out from the cameraman on the floor. Every time, it happens. Maybe it hasn't for a while, I dunno. But it's so annoying.

Not sure when the wwe started doing this but it is awful. Particular awful if someone gets a hot tag and does a run of quick knockdown.

Oh, they've been doing this for a few years Dante. I don't watch WWE often, but as a cameraman, I notice it all the time when I am watching.

Dunno. Probably, but the Rumble is so chaotic it's hard to remember.

That was just the first video that came up on YouTube when I searched for wwe. It took about 2 seconds to find an instance of it happening which I guess says it all.

That wasn't the best example to be fair just the first I found.

This one is *chef's kiss* though. It has everything.

A million cuts, pointless zooms in and out, and points to the wrestlemania sign.

Should start at 27 seconds. Seth Rollins taking out Triple H.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=27&v=4mgPTIrfjYc&feature=youtu.be

The super kick, seth bouncing off the ropes, and triple H going through the ropes all get the really fast zoom in and out treatment in the space of about five seconds.

I assume they do it to make things seem more impactful? I find it distracting from what's going on and rather than making moves seem more impactful it just hides what happened.

Next time you're doing the football do a cheeky wee zoom in and out on the player's foot when they have a shot at goal