It’s safe to say that WWE TV isn’t as exciting as AEW or other promotions, and at times it’s outright boring as they repeat the same segments week after week, including the same matches.
Even when the matches are great, it’s easy to get bored with the repetition. But considering the WWE released over 80 superstars the last couple of years, they have a limited quantity to choose from.
This is where creativity comes into play, but it seems like the WWE is playing a game of playing it safe. In this case, it’s almost like they’re afraid to try something that will backfire.
Given the nature of the wrestling business and how it runs year round without fail means there will be time where it doesn’t make sense, is boring, or outright bad.
Over saturation
The main culprit of this could be a simple matter of over saturation, and the WWE has definitely flooded the internet and other media with their shows and constant string of news and promos.
Dutch Mantell discussed this in the above link among other topics, some of which we’re going to touch on here.
As Dutch mentioned, when Smackdown launched in 1999 there were a large group of fans and pundits that said it was the beginning of the end for wrestling.
When WCW followed with Thunder, it seemed they had a point, but many of us were enjoying the Monday Night Wars as they spilled into other days and time slots
Since then, the WWE has dominated all facets of wrestling as they became the Disney of professional wrestling. While they’ve made billions, the interest in wrestling has waned from the Monday Night Wars or the 33 million that tuned in to see Hulk Hogan face Andre the Giant on The Main Event in the 1980s.
Creative needs to be creative
We see nearly all the WWE’s top stars wrestle regularly on TV in matches that rarely mean anything with the exception of Roman Reigns.
Reigns, and Smackdown in general, is being handled and planned far better than Raw in that they’re attempting to mirror the old WWE days where we rarely saw Hulk Hogan and others wrestle on TV.
It made seeing them in action a special occurrence and tempted us to go to live shows or buy their pay-per-views.
Their storytelling used to be more diverse as everyone had a storyline to work with, while now they tend to have one or two per show and the rest are matches for the sake of matches.
Like the constant run of Triple Threats, Fatal Four Ways, and so on to get more stars in the ring at once.
As Vince Russo likes to say, “There’s no logic to it, bro” and he’s right. In the end, the WWE comes across as living off their laurels instead of continuing to be the best option out there.
What do you think? Does the WWE need a creative shakeup? Let us know in the comments below.
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