10 Totally Stupid Things WWE Has ALREADY DONE Since WrestleMania 35

6. The Never-Ending Superstar Shake-Up

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Much of WWE's creative woes stem from the perception of the roster as interchangeable parts slotted into and out of programmes without escalatory plot points - or indeed any point, in some instances.

There are no tiers. There are, post NXT, countless championship-caliber characters, and more than a handful of undercard acts. And, since those undercard acts can be pushed suddenly without a coherent, gradual arc - after Robert Roode last week, Mojo Rawley could turn up on SmackDown and go over Aleister Black to shrugs - even that two-tier system doesn't exist.

The Superstar Shake-Up highlighted this. That's the wrong tense, actually, because it is probably still ongoing.

With WWE overseen onscreen by simply "the McMahons", who often don't turn up, and sometimes get along, other times not, there's no real need for it to happen. The patriarch last year said something to the effect of "Both shows are boring as f*ck, so here are some fresh matches we'll burn through in a month", and this year, we were left to infer that the shows are sh*te again.

Are left. It is still ongoing.

WWE had ages to consider the machinations of it all, only they didn't, because several WrestleMania plans were left to the last minute, resulting in Vince simply drawing names from a hat, and then dropping said hat, depicting his performers as actual lost marbles.

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