10 Solutions To The Hot Mess That Is WWE Creative
4. Experiment With A Floating Roster
With so much TV time to fill, the glut of damaging losses and rematches is somewhat inevitable - but hire more local jobbers to do their allotted duty in life and make the stars look like stars. Stars wrestling stars is subtraction by addition, if it happens too often. If nothing else, these local outliers are often quite funny, or at least memorable. James Ellsworth and the "Big Sweaty Men" man were delightful, and one cursory scroll through the guilty laugh generator that is the Trash Bag Wrestlers Facebook page confirms that they aren't in short supply.
Alternatively, fly in NXT prospects and showcase them as stars of the future in carefully-mapped showcase performances. Operate under the principle of John Cena's awesome U.S. Title Open Challenge. Losing to John Cena on a RAW one-shot did Sami Zayn no harm at all. Well, he was sidelined for ages, but his shoulder was torn, not the rationale.
The issue has existed since the demise of any viable competition. The brand switch hasn't really solved anything; while divided, the respective rosters remain fixed in place - thus creating inevitable scope for plate-spinning and repetition.
Live action Indy starlet tryouts, nostalgic one-shot returns: there are more ways of freshening up the stale rosters that don't require dreaded, careful forethought.