10 Lessons WWE Could Learn From Their Own History

Have you ever gone back and watched Hulk Hogan vs. Andre The Giant? The iconic moment that WWE likes to tell us is one of the biggest of all time? If you have, you’ll have discovered that rather than an epic clash their WrestleMania III match was lumbering at best.

Yet, that moment is etched into every wrestling’s fans head. It’s THE WrestleMania moment, and Hogan still dines out on stories about it today. That’s the power of storytelling, and too often WWE seems to forget it.

Take Roman Reigns; there is a very vocal part of WWE’s audience which thinks he can’t wrestle. Even if we ignore the fact that isn’t true, there are still a lot of issues with that complaint. For one thing, it wasn’t only against Andre that old Hulk put on stinkers - most of his matches were awful. While even Stone Cold (who was a good wrestler back in the day) spent most of his time on top relying on running around the ring punching people. Even if Roman can't wrestle (though he can), why should it stop him being the man?

What makes you the man is not what you do in the ring but the stories you tell outside it, WWE seems to have forgotten how to tell a story with Roman Reigns. They have failed to turn him into a sympathetic character, and as long as that is the case, he will continue to be booed.