10 BOLD Predictions For WWE In 2019
2. WWE Will Ruin Braun Strowman Forevermore
A performer of Braun Strowman’s ilk comes equipped with a certain expiration date.
The Monster doesn’t fare well for long on an episodic television show acted out by a static, recurring cast. The Monster used to travel from one territory to the next in order to protect their singular aura. A powerful but limited performer had to be booked sparingly, else the extraordinary became ordinary. This is true, too, of Strowman’s body: a man of that size cannot wrestle at his speed without turning his knees into dust, and per recent reports, this is precisely what is happening.
Already, Strowman, booked recklessly to perform in comedy segments, and having eaten defeats to Brock Lesnar (one deeply underwhelming, the other a weird squash designed to compensate for the Beast’s lack of enthusiasm) has diminished in popularity from a 2017 peak, in which his brand of backstage stunts and blockbuster sports entertainment spectacles reduced grown men to wide-eyed children.
WWE missed the opportunity to effectively promote this genuinely special act, and WWE being WWE, they’ll work themselves into pinning the blame on the performer, and not the booking.
This may even come to fruition as early as January: if he loses to Lesnar for the third time, bullsh*t finish or no, that will stigmatise the Monster not as a mere man, but as a Loser.