10 Ways WWE Have Shot Themselves In The Foot At WrestleMania 31
8. Wins & Losses Are Meaningless
Its impossible to watch wrestling in the 21st century without knowing at least a little about the ins and outs of the business, and at the very least that its all a show. Winners and losers are decided before anyone steps through the curtain and the job of the performers isnt to focus on winning as much as it is to entertain the crowd as much as possible. That doesnt mean that wins and losses shouldnt matter, instead they should be used to tell the most interesting and entertaining stories they can. Instead, WWE gets caught in a weird holding pattern where everyone has to get their heat back and wrestlers trade wins and losses with it not meaning anything. Aside from Rusevs recent reign with the United States Championship, this has been the case for pretty much all championships, except the World Title, for a long time. In the run-up to the pay-per-view, the champions will often lose a number of non-title matches to their opponents, only for them to retain at end of the month and restart the cycle the next night on Raw. It doesnt help that WWEs writers have seemingly given up on creative finishes, with four out of six matches this past Raw ending by distraction or interference. Its this sort of booking that is destroying peoples interest in WWE and driving them to seek out alternatives, and there needs to be a drastic overhaul of creative if they want to get serious about improving the quality of their programming.
