10 Reasons WWE Fans Should Boycott WrestleMania 31

9. Lack Of Star Power

One of the worst kept secrets of the past decade in WWE is their complete inability to create new stars that their fanbase cares about. Every once in awhile, someone like Daniel Bryan or Dolph Ziggler comes along and is organically turned into a star because of crowd reactions. However, that wrestlers is then usually punished because the crowd wasn't supposed to cheer for him. People's Exhibit A: Zack Ryder. Because of this inability to connect to their audience, WWE has very few talents who would be accepted in a main event role. Aside from John Cena, Randy Orton, and Brock Lesnar, almost no one is seen as a serious threat to the world title scene from the past five years. Because of this, fans have to suffer through Cena vs. Orton for the 1800th time and continually see the Big Show repackaged as a monster heel every six months. If you look at the cards of the first 20 Wrestlemanias or so, the cards are stacked with talents that could, as Gorilla Monsoon would say, main event any arena in the country. At one point, you had a card featuring the Hardys, Edge, Christian, the Dudleys, Steve Austin, the Rock, Triple H, the Undertaker, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, and Kane. That's not even acknowledging that the first few Wrestlemanias had almost every single superstar from every territory in the country, essentially serving as an all-star game for wrestling. These days, WWE is forced to bring back part-time wrestlers to fill out the main event slots. That stems from their own inability to create new stars or use stars of the past to put over new talent. Which leads us to...
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