| It's been my main bug about WWE for so long. The talent is there, they have a roster that contains many performers that I love to watch and who could do great things in the ring, but the writing is just so wrong. To the point where I'm beginning to doubt Vince's position as "wrestling genius" at all.
Just playing devil's advocate but maybe he just got lucky a couple of times(!), first with Hogan and his supporting cast and then with Austin and his in the attitude era. I'm finding myself constantly questioning "Can he really be a genius if he can't see how bad his shows are (by comparison to previous times) and if his solutions to the problems are just so consistantly horrible".
Maybe the real key is to find that magical someone that people can attach to again. Like a Hogan or an Austin. The company needs to have that big name guy that's a face or tweener that they can build around. Hunter has never been able to get over as a face in the same way he can as a heel so it's not him. Edge is very popular with wrestling fans it seems (and deserves to be since he has been a complete god for quite some time now) but does he has mass appeal? Cena, Orton, Benjamin, Carlito.....none of them seem to be able to crack it either.
Maybe that's to do with their characters, which again comes back to the writing. None of them have crossed over as yet, but it's not to say they never will. They need the right angle and character to take them over to more casual fans.
I've long thought it needs a crossover person to bring in the casual fan again but who could do it. Last time it was Tyson that took Austin from star to superstar. Who could they use now to fill that role? And if they could get bring somebody huge in to help out in that regard, which wrestler would you (at this stage) try to get over to project the company and try and push it to another boom time? Bear in mind to push the company to that level the character would have to be a face or at the least a tweener. |