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The WWE is on a permanent decline, due to their 'They are victims of their own success' [sic] that a wrestler stated about WCW many years ago. There are quite a few problems with the product compared to yesteryear, but I'll just cover the big parts:
- The boring promos
- The lack of popular, promoted wrestlers.
- The large amounts of PPVs in one calender year
- Talent being wasted on nonsense storylines
- The lack of writers that recognize talent and can 'promote' them
- The Heavyweight Title (and others) doesn't 'mean' as much to anyone as it should
- The WWE is a openly traded company who's loyalty is to the shareholders
- The WWE doesn't care about ratings any longer, as long as they break a 3.0 share.
- The writers have no idea what 'talent' is.
- Redundant matches against the same people over and over, year after year.
- Feuds have no intensity, no 'depth', no build up
- The writers not listening to the crowds. (Cena sucks?)
-- The lack of a tag division
-- The divas section being an embarrassment
While the AE and other 'Eras' brought a change in the product to make it more popular with certain demographics for a generation, the post Attitude Era was just the beginning of the end for the company as a whole. The past WWF/E has a history of 'Eras' and/or Ages, which I will summarize very quickly with an anaology of 'tick' (high/popular) vs 'tock' (stale/on the decline).
'Tick' -> Golden Age/Era
'Tock' -> New Generation
'Tick' -> Attitude Era
'Tock' -> Post AE (RE/PG13/whatever)
There is no real need for the WWF/E to do any changes to their product to make it popular, as there really isn't a need for them to, they have no competition at all, no territories, nothing. Since the exit of WCW and ECW many moons ago, let's face it, the product will continue to be bad and get worse over time as people such as the Undertaker and other veterans are forced to retire.
Please sit back and think for a second, the product /IS/ mediocre at best, but it's just awful overall; there are a few interesting things ongoing (The Shield has potential), however due to WWF/E botching buildups (the pipebomb comes to mind) and signing people who should stay retired (Brock, The Rock), it's apparent the WWE only wants to do what WCW did, put on a good show and that is it.
- The boring promos
- The lack of popular, promoted wrestlers.
- The large amounts of PPVs in one calender year
- Talent being wasted on nonsense storylines
- The lack of writers that recognize talent and can 'promote' them
- The Heavyweight Title (and others) doesn't 'mean' as much to anyone as it should
- The WWE is a openly traded company who's loyalty is to the shareholders
- The WWE doesn't care about ratings any longer, as long as they break a 3.0 share.
- The writers have no idea what 'talent' is.
- Redundant matches against the same people over and over, year after year.
- Feuds have no intensity, no 'depth', no build up
- The writers not listening to the crowds. (Cena sucks?)
-- The lack of a tag division
-- The divas section being an embarrassment
While the AE and other 'Eras' brought a change in the product to make it more popular with certain demographics for a generation, the post Attitude Era was just the beginning of the end for the company as a whole. The past WWF/E has a history of 'Eras' and/or Ages, which I will summarize very quickly with an anaology of 'tick' (high/popular) vs 'tock' (stale/on the decline).
'Tick' -> Golden Age/Era
'Tock' -> New Generation
'Tick' -> Attitude Era
'Tock' -> Post AE (RE/PG13/whatever)
There is no real need for the WWF/E to do any changes to their product to make it popular, as there really isn't a need for them to, they have no competition at all, no territories, nothing. Since the exit of WCW and ECW many moons ago, let's face it, the product will continue to be bad and get worse over time as people such as the Undertaker and other veterans are forced to retire.
Please sit back and think for a second, the product /IS/ mediocre at best, but it's just awful overall; there are a few interesting things ongoing (The Shield has potential), however due to WWF/E botching buildups (the pipebomb comes to mind) and signing people who should stay retired (Brock, The Rock), it's apparent the WWE only wants to do what WCW did, put on a good show and that is it.