10 Mistakes WWE Refuse To Learn From
Mistakes are made, lessons are learned. Unless you are WWE, of course.
Everyone makes mistakes. Whether it is letting down a friend or endangering the free world, we've all been there. It happens. The important thing is to learn from them. To look at what we did and make steps to prevent it happening again. A million motivational posters will tell you that that is how we grow as people.
Well, WWE is obviously a motivational poster free zone, because no matter how many mistakes they make, those lessons never seem to be learnt. Instead, they blunder on, bashing into a few walls and more often than not, doing the same thing over again. They're like a child who has spent their whole life being told they can't do anything wrong.
But here's the thing: They can do stuff wrong. They do stuff wrong all the time, and then they do it again a few months later. They're not even necessarily big things. They are small things but when they happen time after time you have to wonder exactly why those behind the scenes don't learn. Mistakes can be forgiven but repeating the same mistake time after time - that's a different matter entirely.
10. Rushing The Angle
With a PPV every couple of weeks and countless hours of TV to fill, WWE has got themselves into a nasty habit. A nasty habit of rushing through things like there is no tomorrow.
Take AJ Styles vs. Kevin Owens, a dream match for many fans and two of the company’s best workers. That’s a feud that can sell out buildings and headline PPVs. It’s a feud that should be the cornerstone of your product for months to come. Instead, they are warring over the US Title, trading wins and ultimately failing to achieve anything.
If we’d slowed all of that down, however, we would have had anticipation and excitement. What if Styles had had to chase Owens, jumping through hoops to get the title shot the fans believed he deserved? Owens could have dodged one on one matches for months only to finally be forced into one at SummerSlam. The moment they locked up for the first time would have been huge.
Instead, we get another match. Another match between two great wrestlers but another match all the same. Much like Styles and Jericho became another match and Owens and Zayn. They stop being special when we see them a million times.