Is WWE Finally Losing the Battle and the War?

by
Andrew Aung
September 10, 2018

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WWE Losing Battle and the War

WWE’s popularity might be decreasing in the coming year. For starters, there is the massive ego of the company’s chairman, Vince McMahon. Although he always opens the door for their ex-Superstars to return to the company, Vince will not let the superstars within the company do a one-time appearance or wrestle in the independent circuit.

Look how Cody Rhodes pulled the impossible by bringing 10,000+ fans into a non-WWE event. We even saw one of top WWE performers, Chris Jericho, make an appearance.

Talents

If he just let even mid-card wrestlers work outside of the company and pay a certain amount of percentage back to the company it will do more good than damage it. That’s because, in my opinion, there are a lot of mid-carders who are more talented than the company’s top dog. Yet, they aren’t getting anywhere. That’s what happens when the company doesn’t look after their faithful stars that helped the company win during the “Monday Night War” era. At least Vince and Triple H should allow a few of their talents to take part in some of the events.

Don’t just burn bridges, build them!

Creative Writers

We all know the challenges the company writers have to deal with for the longest weekly program in sports entertainment history. However, the company is lacking in match set-ups and storylines. Look at their top main event stars: AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Finn Balor, Daniel Bryan, Kelvin Owens and so on. Each of those men all had their popularity from independent wrestling, not the hard work from the creative team. The company only needs to scout around and pay a lucrative amount of money to jump ship. But once the stars are called up to the main roster, writers don’t know how to push them.

WWE’s Characters aren’t like the Old Days

There are only a few characters that the creative team helped craft. Those include Rusev, Bray Wyatt and Braun Strowman. Unfortunately, they all are booked horribly. Among those three talented stars, Braun Strowman and Rusev have gotten a nice pop like back in the attitude era. But Mr. McMahon and the writers are hell-bent on pushing Roman Reigns so badly that they pretended not to see the popularity that those men got. Now those men are more of main event jobbers to mid-card winners.

The worst of all is that the company gave their heavyweight title to Jinder Mahal, and even let him beat Rusev. But now Mahal is back being a jobber. Though the company says they “listen to the fans,” allowing 50-year-old Goldberg to beat Kevin Owens clean isn’t.

Randy Orton beating Bray Wyatt isn’t.

Roman Reigns being the top face and Universal Champion isn’t.

So my question is when!? When will we see the improvement of the creative team? Or, will we see the kingdom crumble while the indy wrestling companies join forces?