8. Part-Timers Return Once Again
Every Wrestlemania it seems that WWE cleans out its basement and finds guys from the past to come in and fill up the upper card and main event slots. Guys like Batista, Triple H, and the Rock all find themselves at the top of the card while the full-time wrestlers have to work the dark matches or be happy signing autographs at Axxess. Heck, there's even a part-time WWE world heavyweight champion at this point. As long as part-timers are put in positions above the talent of today, wrestling fans aren't going to see today's wrestlers as being on their level. When Batista returns after being absent for years and then immediately wins the Royal Rumble, it makes the rest of the roster look weak because 29 of them couldn't beat a 45 year old movie star. Sure, some of these part-timers may pop a rating for Raw or get a few more people interested in watching the Wrestlemania show but WWE has already killed their pay-per-view model with the WWE Network so PPV is dead and buried to them. You can't count on Batista getting people to spend $60 on a show because now you need them to pay $10 a month forever. One show isn't going to convince an audience to pay $10 a month for the next three years. You need sustained interest and part-time wrestlers can't build sustained interest. Your superstars need to be the guys on your roster who are working the house shows and appear at Raw on Mondays. This way, your audience becomes trained to see the people on TV every week as stars, not just someone who shows up once a year.