10 Serious Problems With WWE Right Now

Well, quantity certainly isn't an issue...

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It's pretty clear to anyone who watches WWE that the company is currently in a golden age... when it comes to theme music. In recent years, CFO$ has take some of the workload off longtime composer Jim Johnston (he's been working more on creating scores for WWE's films), and the result has been a refreshing of the tired paradigm. Johnston and CFO$ are both doing amazing work as a result.

An important part of nailing a good theme song is that it fits a character, and that's where the company is really excelling. T.J. Perkins's Mega Man II-inspired "Playing with Power" may be the most recent example of WWE Music Group's success, but there's no shortage - stars like Kevin Owens and Sasha Banks also have great themes.

In NXT, the quality of entrance themes is even more pronounced. Shinsuke Nakamura's "The Rising Sun" quickly assuaged the worries of fans who missed his "Subconscious" theme from New Japan, while Asuka's "The Future" is unmistakable. Plus, anything I write here about Bobby Roode's "Glorious" would simply be redundant - it's already been deservedly praised online for many months.

There. I've said something nice. Now, let's move onto 10 serious problems with WWE right now.

10. The Cruiserweights Have Been Poorly Defined

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The Cruiserweight Classic tournament that the WWE Network hosted this past summer was a huge success - so much so, that even before the tournament was halfway over, WWE announced that the cruiserweights would become a permanent part of Raw. When T.J. Perkins captured the new Cruiserweight Championship by winning the CWC, he was crowned the king of the new division.

That's worked out pretty well for Perkins - as well as his new rival Brian Kendrick - but unfortunately, the rest of the cruiserweights on Raw have gotten the short end of the stick. WWE was clearly impressed with their work - almost half of the men in the tournament have gone on to appear on Raw - but they haven't given men like Cedric Alexander, Lince Dorado, and Gran Metalik what they need to succeed.

What would that be? Maybe some character motivation, some expressed personality, and some feuds. These men are among the most talented workers in all of WWE, but this is still the sports entertainment company - fans want a character-driven reason to cheer or boo stars, and not giving those reasons to the cruiserweights has hurt their reception.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013