Fundamental Flaws

[Loose Cannon]

Originally Posted by XL I think the business has evolved way beyond comparison with anything that has come before. I am one of those guys that doesn't see a guy like Edge as a legit Main Eventer in comparison to someone like Austin or The Rock and I attribute a lot of that to the fact that for me he will always carry the stigma of being one of two champions in the Brand Split Era. But what can they seriously do about it now? Cull 2/3 of the roster? Let's say we streamline Raw and SD! back into one roster (I'll exclude ECW due to it's transition to NXT), we have to keep the following guys: HHH, Taker, HBK, Cena, Batista, Edge, Jericho, Orton, CM Punk, Mysterio and let's say Sheamus as guys recently involved in the title pictures. That's one crowded Main Event scene if you ask me. Two of those guys will fued over the belt leaving 9 others to fill the rest of the card. Add to that the likes of Miz, Show, DiBiase, Morrison, Christian, Truth, McIntyre, etc and you're 4 hours of TV a week are pretty much full. It's a big ask for these lower card guys to get up to Main Event status if we already have 9 Main Eventers ahead of them. I think TNA have a similar problem now: Too many guys, not enough TV time. I've been watching the last few TNA shows and we sometimes have to wait 2 weeks to get a resolution from something that happened on another show. That kills the momentum of the wrestler/fued for me. Comparing the modern wrestling landscape to anything that went before - including the Attitude Era - is pretty moot if you ask me. The business (or at least WWE) has changed too much. [That's not to say that improvements can't be made.]

well two problems with a crowded Main event scene is that you really only have one big show in town, so most top guys don't leave. Then you have young guys being pushes very rapidly and it gets crowded. Give them all this TV time and you get the same matches over and over

Go back and look at WM22. The main event was John Cena vs HHH. How many times have John Cena and HHH been involved in a match (tagging togther or against each other) since then? It's a lot.

[thedamndest]

Originally Posted by Loose Cannon well two problems with a crowded Main event scene is that you really only have one big show in town, so most top guys don't leave. Then you have young guys being pushes very rapidly and it gets crowded. Give them all this TV time and you get the same matches over and over Go back and look at WM22. The main event was John Cena vs HHH. How many times have John Cena and HHH been involved in a match (tagging togther or against each other) since then? It's a lot.

Part of the reason that young guys get pushes earlier is that they have no PPV room for non-title matches. Thay have one PPV a year called Night of Champions, but if you look at it, basically every PPV is a Night of Champions. You can't develop an under card that way. So you either push them, or they sit around and put guys over until you boot them out.