10 Old-Time 'Rasslin' Traditions WWE Should Kill In Order To Live

9. For Every Five Ripped Or Tall Dudes, There Needs To Be One Short(er) Fat Guy

How WWE has forgotten that a significant percentage of their audience likely hasn't seen the inside of a gym in their whole entire life is beyond me. It's not a put down, it's an honest issue, one of those times when WWE could be marketing performers who look like (and act like) people in the crowd, but isn't, to the company's downfall. In the 1980s, much of WWE's success was built around a number of really big, fat, athletic and charismatic performers. There were more top heels who looked like Kevin Owens than looked like Seth Rollins, and moreover, you couldn't have the Attitude Era without Mick Foley working both heel and babyface and gaining much of his heat and sympathy because of his look, much to the benefit of the product. Compelling television comes from putting people on TV who look average, but then do superhuman things. When you put a bunch of above average looking people on TV doing above average things, nothing happens but the product then feeling generic and commonplace.