10 Lessons WWE's Main Roster Is Slowly Learning From NXT's Success
7. Wrestling Is Fun
All of this "hey you guys, we really should be watching NXT" talk started when Sami Zayn and Cesaro started going out and having Pro Wrestling Guerilla-style in-ring contests against each other on broadcast TV. As an aside, if you want to do a "wrestling for wrestling's sake" feud, the ability to wrangle Cesaro for a few shots from the main roster is amazing. That point aside, there's a point wherein you occasionally have to remember that one of the core components of "sports entertainment" is that there's a wrestling ring involved, a space where great wrestlers doing wrestling NEVER fails. Grappling and counter-wrestling are back in vogue in the pro wrestling industry. There's a crew of wrestlers currently employed in WWE who are really really great at it. In say, Cesaro and Kevin Owens being allowed to do what Cesaro and Sami Zayn did in NXT, maybe there's a way to get a few eyes to turn and mouths to say, "hey you guys, we really should be watching Raw again."
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
