Originally Posted by Bulldog

Loss of high quality performers - Austin, Rock, Foley all in a short space of time. These were the guys that made me want to watch the programmes and buy the PPV's so bad. HHH is up there with them, however I always think of him as more of a "glue" guy, holding it all together with high quality performers around him.

Departure of Brock Lesnar.

Quality of writing going downhill - Seemingly since Steph has been in charge of the writing team and predominantly since WMXVII. Mick Foley also mentioned recently that the company has "done comedy" really badly over the last few years. They haven't put enough humour in and when they have it's been embarrasing.

Long term injuries to Kurt Angle, one of the few performers who could have run with the ball but physically hasn't been able to.

Lack of competition - They're the only major show in town and it shows. WWE seeming always does better when under threat from elsewhere.
The lack of evelation of "over" performers - RVD, Booker T, Chris Jericho, Matt Hardy, Christian, Eddie Guerrero. The list is endless of performers who have reached a certain point in the WWE however, when they have required the big win to take them up to the top level, they've been looked over. These are all performers who at one stage were seriously over, but the WWE lacked faith in pushing them to the moon and, as a consequence, some are now barely over anymore.

I don't agree with the cyclical thing that is always spouted by the WWE. The shows have been rubbish and that's why the ratings are low, it's a cop out to just say it's cyclical. Sure that would have a small effect but it masks the key problems

There the ones I can think off immediately, I'm sure there are more!!!