10 Lessons WWE Should Have Learned Over WrestleMania 35 Weekend

3. The Roster Is Too Big

Between Raw, SmackDown, 205 Live, NXT, NXT UK and the Performance Center, WWE currently employ some 240+ wrestlers. That is, frankly, absurd.

Their three hour flagship episode of TV will usually feature between 15-25 of them, with a standard PPV choc-full of multi-man matches managing to squeeze in somewhere between 30-40 from both brands. Across any given month that means there are over 200 wrestlers who are not getting on TV.

Now granted not everyone can get a big spot and the company's entire business model depends on having the requisite number of performers to fill multiple, un-televised live events every week, but the extent to which it's becoming bottom-heavy is unsustainable. Bonafide stars, legitimate main-eventers, men and women who would dominate virtually any other promotion are not getting a fair crack of the whip and sooner or later the backlash will come.

Would Dean Ambrose, a former WWE Champion, be departing if the route back to the Raw main event didn't look so hopelessly crowded? Would Sasha Banks, undeniably one of the most talented and marketable women on the planet, be disappointed in the decision to take the tag belts away from her, if it wasn't the first decent bit of booking she'd had in over a year? How long will Andrade, a man with an all-time great WWE match on his CV, tolerate being fodder for things like the Andre Battle Royal?

While it remains a career goal for many to eat at Vince's top table, sooner or later most people are coming to realise that there simply isn't enough to go around. With other promotions taking big strides in 2019, don't be surprised if the cull instead becomes an exodus.