10 Great WWE Characters That Have Grown Stale
In WWE, the line between a great character and an outdated one is just about as thin as it gets.
Staying fresh is the name of the game. Okay, professional wrestling is the name of the game, but performers swimming in the choppy seas of WWE need to stay fresh in order to survive. Hold on - sports entertainment is the name of the game? The point still stands.
That new toy shine can make a performer in the modern age, but its decay can be ten-times more damaging. The creative malaise of doing the same thing over and over again can paint a wrestler into a corner that is very difficult to escape from, nigh on impossible even. Wrestlers must do all they can to stay fresh without changing too much too quickly. It all makes for a decidedly edgy tightrope that even the most talented of men and women struggle to toe.
WWE's creative processes don't give the performers much help, truth be told. You can be the most magnetic tag team on the planet but constantly having to face the same opposition can only lead you down so many alleyways. The fault isn't entirely on the writing team though; pro wrestling history is littered with examples of men and women who made chicken salad from chicken sh*t.
WWE as a wrestling promotion has been stale for a long time, and there are a number of characters today that are in dire need of a freshening up.
10. The Street Profits
What is WWE's obsession with moving champions during drafts? If it isn't the secondary championships then it is the tag teams, and that is exactly what seems to be happening with the 2020 edition. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The New Day were chosen by RAW on Friday, bringing to an end that trio's famous six-year run. Unless Kofi and Xavier lose the titles on this week's RAW, it is almost inevitable that The Street Profits will move in the other direction.
Here's hoping that is the case, as Montez and Dawkins are just about as stale as they have been during their time as a team. They haven't been helped at all by spending almost all of 2020 feuding exclusively with Andrade and Angel Garza, but that isn't the only reason. The duo are just about as crowd-friendly as it gets, and the lack of audience has exposed their relative inexperience in the ring.
It won't take much to bring life back to The Street Profits. A change of scenery and fresh opponents will almost certainly do the job. If Andrade and Angel move over to SmackDown alongside the Profits, then God help us all.