10 Dream Scenarios For Wrestling's New BOOM Period
3. Triple H Starts Taking Risks
Paul Levesque is a very effective if dry wrestling booker.
Now, that's a good thing, at least to his audience. He profiles his top stars. Even if they don't have a great deal to do, they do a great deal. Sometimes, a back-and-forth promo duel will drag as the wrestlers involved regurgitate the premise of their rivalry at one another, but the effect works over time. You know who the stars are. It's as much an exercise in conditioning as storytelling, an approach best typified by Levesque's insistence on booking very, very long title reigns as the norm.
The philosophy yields incredible results when WWE does eventually deviate from the pattern. Cody Rhodes, drenched in blood, becomes a far more indelible image precisely because it so rarely happens. A turn, like Damage CTRL's on Bayley, is meant to resonate all the more.
Signing CM Punk was a risk, and every time he appears onscreen, WWE takes on a fascinating, untenable edge. Why not do more interesting things?
Stop the soft-launch NXT call-ups and boldly promote a talent as a true difference-maker, because as it stands, no debuting name will ever have the Will Ospreay Effect in AEW. Give an untested talent a live mic, just to see what would happen. If they can actually hang,
Less is more works for WWE, but the TV is too often free of true incident.