10 Lessons WWE Shouldn’t Forget From WCW’s History

8. No More Part-Time Wrestlers

One of the biggest mistakes that WCW made was allowing their wrestlers creative control of their storylines while also granting them contracts to only work a limited amount of dates per year. Suddenly, your biggest stars weren't on television each week and hardly any of them worked house shows. Not surprisingly, attendance for the house shows went down and viewership slowly declined when appearances became inconsistent. WWE, due to their failure to make people care about any of their full-time stars not named John Cena or Randy Orton, has been turning to past wrestlers in recent years to pop ratings. The Rock was reintroduced a few years ago and won the world title despite barely wrestling on television. Brock Lesnar defeated John Cena for the world title and then entered the Witness Protection Program and wasn't even mentioned during the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view. Sooner or later, they are going to run out of Attitude Era stars to trot out. Rumors persist that Steve Austin is going to be making a comeback and that we're going to be treated to a Triple H vs. Rock match at Wrestlemania. This would be fine if those matches were a side dish to the main show. However, they are not. These are the matches that the fans want to see and that's very, very bad. The bottom line is that WWE has not created any new stars that draw money. The only wrestlers Vince seemingly relies on are those from 10-15 years ago. Eventually, these guys are going to be too old to perform anymore and we're going to be left watching Carlito making his surprise return to challenge Chris Masters at Wrestlemania.