WWE Super Showdown

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by xrodmuc316 Say what you want about John Cena and Randy Orton, but when you start giving main roster pushes to guys who are still under 25, you have the best chance to ensure you will have stars for a decade plus.

There is another part to that equation, though: that being WWE expects guys they pick to get that push to be INSTANTLY over and an boundless revenue stream from merch and tickets. They stopped building characters ages ago. They want to hitch their wagons to one talent (deadhorse Reigns) and ride it until the wheels fall off instead of letting 10 guys go out and see what currently works and stoke those flames for future use.

Also, remember, Cena and Orton were "experiments". They weren't even sure they wanted to push those two in spite of being everything they fucking want in a star now. If the company had its way, they'd still have been booking Rock and Austin, and those two would be "what if" hindsight booking contenders.

You'll never really see that new talent push until there is either a regime change, or more likely, another massive round of overlapping walk-offs and injuries and they scramble to try to rewrite everything to hotshot guys they should have been slow burning up the card the entire time.