8 Things WWE Can Learn From Other Promotions

WWE is in a creative rut - what can it learn from the rest of the wrestling world?

By John Bills / July 29, 2017

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WWE is the biggest wrestling promotion on the planet, and for good reason. Vince McMahon has created a wrestling monopoly over the past couple of decades. When WCW collapsed the game was up, and the then-WWF had free reign to do what it wanted when it wanted, free of competition.

This has been to the detriment of the quality of the product. Every now and then WWE will produce world class professional wrestling, but more often than not it feels tired and half-baked. Lazy booking and uninspired matches have handicapped the most talented roster the company has ever had.

Vince McMahon isn't going to go looking at other wrestling promotions for ways to improve his product; his company deals in sports entertainment, after all. But if an ounce of humility turned up unannounced in Stamford, what could WWE learn from other promotions?

Authored by John Bills

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.

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