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The lack of Main Event talent is concerning

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#1 ·
The fact they had to use 2 part timers (one who usually wrestles no more than once a year) to headline SummerSlam, their so called 2nd biggest PPV of the year, is not good.

and now calling on a nearly 60 year old Sting (and Cena again :eyeroll), who's wrestled a total of 1 time in WWE, to headline NOC.

Let's take a look at this past year's main events.

Royal Rumble Brock Lesnar vs. John Cena vs. Seth Rollins
Fastlane Roman Reigns vs. Daniel Bryan
WrestleMania 31 Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns
Extreme Rules Seth Rollins vs. Randy Orton
Payback Seth Rollins vs. Roman Reigns vs. Randy Orton vs. Dean Ambrose
Elimination Chamber Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose
Money in the Bank Seth Rollins vs. Dean Ambrose
Battleground Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar
SummerSlam The Undertaker vs. Brock Lesnar
Night of Champions Seth Rollins vs. Sting


It's been the year of The Shield to say the least. But other than them, what other stars are really close to the main event level? Plus, the way they completely botched Ambrose's main event run is inexcusable. He should be on top of WWE as a Stone Cold-level face right now, yet just recently he's doing jobs to Big Show. :deanfpalm

Not to mention rushing Reigns too fast, too soon and may have ruined him also as far as the main event goes. A heel turn for both of them might be their best route to get back to credible main event status.



and finally, the one tool they should be using to build up a new up and coming talent, the Money in the Bank, is currently held by none other than Sheamus. :ha

when you have arguably the most talented roster to date, there's really no excuse for the lack of main event talent. If by this time next year, they're still calling on guys like Undertaker, Sting, The Rock etc. instead of guys like Cesaro, Owens, Rusev, Barrett or Wyatt to headline PPVs, then sad wouldn't begin to describe it.
 
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#5 ·
Bray Wyatt
Rusev
Kevin Owens
Cesaro
Wade Barrett
Damien Sandow

There is enough talent on the roster, what is lacking is fucking competency in managment/creative.
 
#33 ·
I'm reserving judgement on Zayn. But yeah the other two have nowhere near the speaking skills or versatility to seem like good bets to be main eventers.


There is no lack of main event talent, there is a lack of creative direction for most of those talents who just need a little push to become huge stars.
This basically sums it up.

If you have a roster with Reigns, Ambrose, Rollins, Rusev, Wyatt, Owens, Cesaro, Barrett, and even Miz yet get such continuously lackluster results, you need to take a look at the people running the show.

The E has become like a sports team that has good players but a GM, Coaches, and Managers that don't know what they are doing.
 
#32 ·
There is no lack of main event talent, theres a lack of creative direction for most of those talents who just need a little push to become huge stars. Reigns has massive potential as an entitled heel, but gotta keep him as an "underdog" superman face who can't get more than decent reactions here and there. Ambrose is one moveset and one push away from becoming the next big thing, but gotta keep him as the "brother" of Roman Reigns to try to make Roman go over with the crowd. Cesaro is really over with the crowd and its only one push away to become huge, but gotta keep him wandering in the midcard in meaningless feuds. Those are only a few examples of several wrestler who just need creative direction to become something big, but with Vince not giving a fuck about anyone he doesn't like, theres not really much anyone could do.
 
#38 ·
[Complains about generic face role. Wants generic heel role]
:booklel

Dean would be so far down the card without Roman, but of course, everything is just to get Roman over with you people.fpalm

Cesaro is only getting a singles run because Kidd got injured.

And besides, all these hardcore favorites are being held down because WWE is trying to make a star out of another hardcore favorite, Seth Rollins. What do you guys want? You got your Indy guy as champ and you're still unhappy?
 
#13 ·
It's been the year of The Shield to say the least. But other than them, what other stars are really close to the main event level? Plus, the way they completely botched Ambrose's main event run is inexcusable. He should be on top of WWE as a Stone Cold-level face right now, yet just recently he's doing jobs to Big Show. :deanfpalm

Not to mention rushing Reigns too fast, too soon and may have ruined him also as far as the main event goes. A heel turn for both of them might be their best route to get back to credible main event status.
You kinda just undid your argument in that section. It's been the year of Seth Rollins, not The Shield. And it never will be the year of The Shield because Ambrose will never be booked strongly.

And yeah, there's a critical lack of main event talent. Vince has no faith in anybody, so I don't know why he's even trying anymore. They say he loves his job, but the way he seems to hate his entire roster contradicts that.
 
#30 ·
First off, I do like bringing in former wrestlers and using them as a tool to elevate the company, but while being there it is the job of management and creative to give everyone the opportunity to shine. This is where WWE has failed considerably. You have a great champion in Seth Rollins, but I don't think he needs to be built as a Triple H guy. Seth can be on the top all by himself without the help of Triple H or Vince McMahon.

Where WWE is failing is how they book their shows. Let's take Summerslam for instance. The PPV was built around Undertaker and Brock, and that's fine, but if that is the main event for the show then why have a WWE Title Match on the card. Everyone knows that the WWE Title is what is the main event and by not putting the World Title as your last match you devalue to title and the champion.

Guys like Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, and Bray Wyatt all have what it takes to be in the main event picture now, but unfortunately they remain overshadowed by Cena because he's the "Face" of WWE.
 
#48 ·
Of the examples you could have used............... Wade Barrett has little to no mic skills? Really? :aries2
 
#10 · (Edited)
there isn't a lack of mainevent talent

cena, orton, lesnar, rollins, reigns, taker, ambrose, bryan (when fit) have mainevented ppvs this year. you are confusing number of maineventers with big drawing maineventers

between february 1998 and october 1999 steve austin mainevented 17 ppvs because he was far and away the biggest draw the company had ever seen..there is nobody on the roster right now with that kind of drawing power thus nobody is getting to mainevent 17 ppvs in 19 months

the mainevent is meant to be a small group of individuals not a 10-15 people, between wrestlemania 21 and 27 one or more of edge, hhh, cena, orton and batista mainevented every ppv but i believe two ppvs
 
#11 ·
WWE is failing to develop new talent, that's why they're continuing to rely on the part-timers, and in all honesty they've been the saving grace of Wrestlemania more often than not in the past 5-6 years.

Rollins is the only one they've really been successful with. The likes of Reigns, Ambrose, Cesaro, Owens, Rusev and Wyatt have potential but they've been fucked up momentarily by bad booking.

Cena is stale and needs to turn heel.
 
#18 · (Edited)
It allowed the WWE to get lazy and not create any more stars.
I tend to agree with you but I'd also argue that in this day and age (too many shows, business exposed via web, public's perception of wrestling nowadays) we're not going to get a real superstar (Hogan, Austin, even HHH/Cactus). Before screaming "WHAT ABOUT BRYAN?!?!?". Bryan was certainly an outlier and after the audience got invested in him (TWICE) for him to only go away and then (reportedly) being turned away once healthy, the audience isn't going to attach to a wrestler like that again anytime in the near future. We're left with pretenders and midcarders as main eventers.

Booking, of course, does fuck all for everybody. Nobody stands out as great except for Brock and Cena and MAYBE HHH.
 
#17 ·
There isn't lack of main event talent, there is lack of platform for that talent. When one half of your main event storyline is always blocked with the Authority and it's golden boys you just can't expect any non authority heel to come to the spotlight. Guys like Wyatt and Owens can step up to the main event in a whisker and open up possibilities for several intriguing main event feuds if it weren't for Triple H -Stephanie constantly having an itch for putting themselves and only themselves over rather than letting some fresh heels take their spotlight at the top.
 
#23 ·
people are just throwing out random names now and expecting wwe to make them all maineventers, never going to happen. wwe have always had the same 5/6 guys in or around mainevent for as long as they have had one roster for all ppvs

here are the list of ppv mainevents (singles or 3/4-way matches) between january-august by year

1998; austin 5, hbk 2, taker 2, foley 2, kane 1
1999; austin 7, vince 2, rock 2, taker 2, foley 1, hhh 1, shane 1
2000; hhh 5, rock 5, foley 2, big show 1, benoit 1, angle 1
2001; rock 3, austin 3 angle 1, undertaker 1, benoit 1, jericho 1, booker 1
2002; hhh 3, taker 3, hogan 2, rock 2, jericho 2, austin 1, angle 1, lesnar 1

2010; taker 1, hbk 1, cena 4, batista 2, sheamus 2, orton 1, edge 1
2011; cena 6, miz 3, punk 2 morrison 1, r-truth 1
2012: cena 5, lesnar 2, kane 1, rock 1, laurinaitis 1, big show 1, hhh 1
2013: rock 3, cena 3, punk 2, hhh 1, lesnar 1, ryback 1, bryan 1
2014; bryan 2, orton 2, kane 2, cena 2 orton 1, reigns 1, batista 1, lesnar 1
2015; rollins 5, lesnar 3, reigns 3, ambrose 3, orton 2, bryan 1, taker 1
 
#27 ·
There are some main events talents but they're buried them so hard , a few exemples is Wade Barrett , The Miz , KO , Sandow ( 2 years ago ) , heel ambrose , these guys are all good talkers but some of them are average in the ring but they can be carried to a good match .
 
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#56 ·
My biggest issue with wwe is management sometimes I feel like they afraid to try.It is easy to say wwe doesn't haven't main eventer but the reason they don't is because they don't give guys who can do it an opportunity I love taker and all the other part timers but they are killing wwes product.i think stars like miz and jack swagger scared the wwe because they weren't as successful as the higher ups wanted them to be.with this roster they have now they have plenty of main event talent they just aren't being used correctly
 
#3 ·
I agree with you OP. Main events nowadays, don't feel like main events iyam. I don't even think Rollins is built enough to be there. A bunch of hacks that, through no fault of their own, couldn't be superstars like others we've seen in the past.
 
#12 ·
Wrestlemania 27 : The Rock(part time wrestler)

Wrestlemania 28 : The Rock(part time wrestler) vs John Cena

Wrestlemania 29 : The Rock(part time wrestler) vs John Cena

Wrestlemania 30 : Bryan vs Orton vs Batista(part time wrestler)

Wrestlemania 31 : Reigns vs Lesnar (part time wrestler)



The WWE doesn't care about creating stars. They want PPVs to sell out and they know they can do this with part time wrestlers.
 
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