10 Reasons Why Old School Fans Struggle With Modern WWE
5. The Ubiquitousness Of John Cena And Randy Orton
The lack of competition means that the days of Lex Luger appearing on Nitro 24 hours after his last WWF appearance are long gone. There is only one viable game in town - and that is WWE. Consequently, if management there likes you well enough, you're pretty much set.
Look no further than John Cena and Randy Orton. Neither man has anything left to achieve after a decade on top. Both might be experiencing an upswing in popularity, but their recent injury-enforced absences might have something to do with it. The current direction of the Orton character is so removed from anything he's ever done that he feels new again. Similarly, the very last naysayers of Cena's in-ring work crawled into the woodwork almost to the second Cena reduced his schedule - but that a re-ignition of their protracted feud has been teased to widespread dread underlines how perilously close both men are to irrelevance.
The problem isn't limited to Cena and Orton, but in fairness to WWE, it is slowly being corrected. The Big Show, Mark Henry and Kane - once the evil trinity of WWE - are rarely seen on television in 2017. Kofi Kingston and Dolph Ziggler have been around for aeons, but are more tolerable in their current incarnations.
The stench of familiarity is slowly dissipating. It is one struggle with an end in sight.