10 Failed Concepts WWE Needs To Revise And Revisit
4. The Lion's Den
More curio than failure, the Lion's Den gimmick of the Attitude Era was an underrated vehicle for Ken Shamrock that left the landscape as quietly as the man himself.
In an age in which content content content generates apathy apathy apathy, it's difficult to process so much of what happens on flagship programming. Constable Corbin and Finn Bálor are still feuding.
Those matches didn't matter, because the deadening expanse of content is largely meaningless by virtue of existing. The over-saturation of the gimmick bout is as to blame, admittedly - but perhaps an easy answer is to look farther afield.
Exhumed as a gimmick match for submission specialists with the ability to fly within enclosed spaces - an AJ Styles, maybe - the Lion's Den is a fun relic ripe for repurpose in the post-MMA age.
Many lapsed fans cite the Attitude Era as the last unmissable period of WWE. "Bringing back" a safer element of it might represent an easy, sponsor-friendly lure to a more talented but lesser known talent roster.