From @rocco_619: Would WWE today benefit from having the standard number of managers in WWE's heyday? I'm talking about the era with Heenan, Hart, Slick, Fuji and so on.
There really were a lot of managers in that period in the late 1980s/early 1990s and it was a good thing for that time period. In 2014, that kind of thing isn't as necessary. It's always important for the business to move on. We don't need to see managers that managed multiple people. The business has evolved. In today's WWE we really only have Paul Heyman with Brock Lesnar, Lana with Rusev and Zeb Colter with Jack Swagger. All of those managers make sense for those performers. Swagger could probably be on his own, but WWE loves putting a manager with him. Lesnar and Rusev clearly benefit from their managers. What I'd like to see are more female managers. There have been some really good ones in the history of WWE, yet right now there aren't any aside from Lana, who is fantastic. Why is that? No idea. They employ so many women, yet barely use some of them. That's a change I would make so that those women would have something to do. Other than that, though, I don't see the need for more mangers. Just because something worked 20 or 30 years ago doesn't mean it will work today.
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