10 Biggest Improvements WWE Have Made In 2016
8. Major Career Revivals
Chris Jericho, The Miz, and Dolph Ziggler looked consigned to the scrapyard at the start of the year. Each had become a tiresome presence on WWE television: Jericho looked bored and uninspired, Miz was drawing “go away” heat, and years of misuse had killed Ziggler’s once-immense crowd support.
Running wrestlers into the ground is nothing new for WWE, and there are still a handful of discarded, under-used superstars who may never make it back to the top. That being said, WWE have done a tremendous job of rebuilding Miz, Jericho, and Ziggler, and all three are more relevant today than they have been in years.
Miz and Ziggler have built one of the year’s best feuds on SmackDown, and their battles for the Intercontinental Championship have gone a long way to repairing the belt’s dented reputation. Their confrontations are always among WWE’s weekly highlights, and they’re performing with a fire and vigour that seemed impossible earlier in the year.
Jericho, meanwhile, is the most enjoyable thing on Raw at the moment. His disgruntled pseudo-hipster act has been a huge success, the List of Jericho is more over than 90% of the roster, and he’s successfully made the worst insult in the world (“STUPID IDIOT!”) into WWE’s hottest catchphrase. Remember when he was screaming “rooty tooty booty” at The New Day back in January? What a turnaround.