ESPN’s recent coverage of WWE may be best described as “strange”. A month ago, SportsCenter began running WWE recap segments. Earlier this month, WWE personality turned SportsCenter anchor Jonathan Coachman broke the news about Seth Rollins’ injured knee. So you’ve got SportsCenter breaking news and recapping events, but when it comes to controversy…well, ESPN hasn’t exactly jumped into that pool in regards to WWE like they regularly do with other major sports.

A week ago on Raw, the show closed with an angle that would immediately generate plenty of negative buzz when Reid Flair, the son of WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair and sister of WWE diva Charlotte, was essentially used as a storyline prop. That normally won’t be a big deal, except…Reid died of an overdose two years ago, and it reeked of bad taste to use his death to forward a storyline.

It started to hit the fan after the show on Tuesday, when Elizabeth Fliehr, ex-wife of Ric and mother of Charlotte, expressed her displeasure.