10 Things WWE Can Learn From Wrestle Kingdom 12

It seems kind of obvious that Tetsuya Naito, the guy challenging for NJPW's biggest prize, should be the most over wrestler on the entire Wrestle Kingdom card - and yet any WWE fans watching may have found that fact strangely unfamiliar.

In the world's number one wrestling promotion, you see, it is not unusual that the wrestler cast in the role of lead baby-face is met with the kind of lukewarm reactions you traditionally associate with the very bottom of the card.

Partly, this is simply a byproduct of NJPW being a much smaller company and therefore able to cultivate a close-knit group of loyal fans who tend to buy into what they're trying to do (something we've seen before in ECW, Ring of Honor and early-era TNA). They attract fewer trolls, in other words.

But perhaps there would be fewer trolls in the WWE Universe if the company actually listened to its audience and put the spotlight on the wrestlers who command the best reactions from the crowd. In other words, let fans decide who is over instead of straight up telling them who they should be cheering for.