4. A Stagnant Main Event Scene
This ones a no brainer to anyone outside of the WWE at the moment; but if the purpose of the main event is to drive Pay-Per-View buy-rates then the more you provide the same talents in that spot then the less willing people are to shell out their hard earned money to see it. WCW persevered with the likes of Hogan, Nash, Savage et all until they were past their prime and it drove their audience off; Hulk Hogan vs Ric Flair was presented to their audience, in one form or another (including tag-team and multiple participant matches), over twenty-five times between '94 & 2000 on both television and Pay-Per-View (of which ten occasions were on Pay-Per-View; five being one on one matches). No TV show with the same cast and plots, no matter how big it was at its peak, lasts forever. Audiences need new things to stave off their boredom; not endless rematches between John Cena and Randy Orton (despite swearing a few years back wed never have to watch that match again). Between 2005 and today this match has been presented, again in one form or another, a staggering seventy-four times with twenty-two of them being on a Pay-Per-View (of which ten were one on one matches). It killed WCW and now its killing WWE.