10 Very Bad WWE Ideas That Lasted For Years
2. Developmental
Initially, it was a good idea, but even then, it was flawed.
Jim Cornette's vision for Ohio Valley Wrestling, while astute, was myopic. It was vital to WWE's future, but the programme had to expand beyond one emulation of a territory, as wildly successful as it was. It did not expand; on the contrary, the one person who knew what was he doing also happened to have the emotional intelligence of a child. Jim Cornette slapping Santino Marella subtracted the load-bearing wall and added the walking sledgehammer that was John Laurinaitis who, without being petitioned to death, destroyed the in-house system. The rot lasted years - some capable minds ran Florida Championship Wrestling, but it was still expressly designed to pump out generic performers - until Triple H dreamed up his new vision for NXT...
...and, in the process, lionised wrestlers that Vince McMahon was never going to push. WWE has promptly returned to a disaster of a system, one that would rather ruin the nice thing of a hot, game-changing debut in service of proving that WWE is superior to anybody else and what they might have previously achieved.
The 2000s were drastically mundane as a result, and WWE is set to repeat the pattern.