10 Attitude Era Elements WWE Must Copy Today
9. Less Gimmick Match Use
One of the major issues with today's product is the abundance of gimmick matches.
There are pay-per-views devoted to Hell in a Cell, Money in the Bank and Tables, Ladders & Chairs matches. Worse yet is the fact that, at any other given show, those matches are also booked.
At WrestleMania 32 alone, fans bore witness to a multi-man Ladder Match, a Street Fight and Hell in a Cell. That is a problem, one that completely devalues those bouts and extinguishes the effectiveness of them.
They no longer mean anything when the company finally wants to use one to blow-off a molten-hot rivalry because, back in 2013, fans had just watched Daniel Bryan and Randy Orton wrestle the second match of their infinite series of bouts inside the enclosed steel structure once saved for the most heated programs.
Eliminating that overuse and allowing those matches to be used for their intended purpose will reintroduce the raw emotion and fantastical anticipation that episodes of Raw and SmackDown, and high-profile pay-per-views, have been devoid of.