10 Easy Ways Of Injecting Realism Into WWE
3. Increase Holiday Entitlement
It's far too unrealistic to expect WWE to implement an off-season, even though it is abundantly clear that everybody needs one. The writers, through exhaustion, are forced to book the same matches every week. Fans, too, have expectations of long-form storytelling that simply cannot be fulfilled due to the formulaic framework within which WWE operates. The wrestlers, through constant in-ring activity and travel, are getting injured with more frequency than ever in this post-Wellness age.
For the latter group, WWE could at least solve that problem through some sort of rotational system - for the purposes of realism, as much as their wellbeing. It's difficult to take something like the Money In The Bank ladder match too seriously when its combatants are trotted out on RAW the next night, only halfheartedly selling the extreme punishment they were meant to have suffered less than 24 hours prior. They likely are in a great deal of pain, ironically enough. That they are then forced to wrestle what typically amounts to a meaningless TV match weakens stipulations, outcomes, physical condition, realism - everything, essentially. Their absence would only have fans clamouring for their return, too (Bobby Roode excepted). Part of WWE's problem, as mentioned in the previous entry, is gimmick match overload.
The overexposure of the roster is equally unrealistic.