10 Ways WWE Can Be THE Cool Wrestling Company Again
9. Break The Shackles
WWE's star-making formula just. Isn't. Working.
Part of the problem is that Vince McMahon remains the only decision-maker, and he is intent on micromanaging (and castrating) talent. Moreover, the company's arrogant, weird "We're not wrestling" approach means that booking has long since been out. Writing is the new normal. This writing often manifests itself as bloated, juvenile, back-and-forth sh*t-slinging. It flies in the face of everything that once made wrestling so great. Can you imagine Scott Steiner standing there for longer than a minute, like a sap, as Enzo Amore rags on him? No. He'd beat the f*cking sh*t out of him. WWE makes it impossible to get behind these feckless jabronies.
"Well Miz," said Jason Jordan a few months back, "when it comes to boos, you're the expert on that, aren't you?" Somebody was paid a fortune to type that.
Flair's space shuttle studio promos of the mid-to-late 1980s; Austin's seminal 3:16 spiel; Triple H's envelope-pushing of mid-1998 - the grand history of wrestling is written by wrestlers, not wrestling writers.Randy Orton is better craic on Twitter this week than he's ever been holding a WWE microphone. WWE is in cost-cutting mode, per several reports.
Bring back the pyro, and fire the writers.