10 Ways WWE Hasn't Learned From Its Mistakes
7. The Weird 'Trust' Issue At The Heart Of Everything
So what happens, as the latest class of PC recruits are destined to fail, is that Vince McMahon anticipates them failing/doesn't believe them capable of succeeding and relies on the same crop of stars who, while bland, stale or overexposed, are nonetheless capable of fulfilling his requests for super-solid WWE-style action.
It's so weird; it's halfway understandable on a myopic short-term basis why Vince will lean on Goldberg and Brock Lesnar time and time again. They draw money. But the Bragging Rights class of 2010?!
It's bizarre. Vince's fondness for the familiar has mutated into a new and tedious strain immune to interest. English football fans experienced something like this a few years back: clubs, desperate to avoid relegation from the Premier League, would hire managers with experience of getting teams out of the muck. The football was dire, and functional to a fault, but they just about got the job done on an almost annual, rotational basis. Alan Pardew, Tony Pulis and Sam Allardyce are now Dolph Ziggler, Sheamus and The Miz.
WWE signed Keith Lee and Vince put the poor f*cker in a t-shirt after two years of feuding with Dominik Dijak, which he'd already done to death on the indies.
This.
Sh*t.
Is.
Pointless.
And.
It.
Isn't.
Working.