10 Annoying Ways WWE Ruined What We Once Loved
6. Passing Of The Torch - The Torch Is Never Passed
It is ridiculous and sad that one of the most important wrestling story archetypes has almost become redundant in modern WWE. The passing of the torch is meant to be an era-defining storyline that happens only a few times in a generation.
While we still get those marquee generation vs. generation feuds today, their significance is almost non-existent. Reason being the torch is simply not passed. Undertaker-Bray Wyatt was meant to be the ascension of the next great supernatural entity in the WWE. Wyatt lost. Roman/Brock was meant to be the crowning moment for the Big Dog (twice). And sure the first match's ending was brilliant and no one even wanted the second match, but still Roman lost on both occasions.
Even in the situations where the younger talent does win, ala Seth Rollins against Triple H, or Roman Reigns against the Undertaker and John Cena, it still doesn’t come across as that big seismic shift it’s meant to be. WWE appear to have completely lost the ability to replicate the magic they once created with Hogan-Warrior, or Rock-Hogan, or Hart-Michaels, or any of the previous era defining encounters.