7 Reasons Why Being A "Big Man" Is Not Best For Business In WWE
3. You Represent Everything WWE Used To Be
Evolution is a fact of life. WWE's product has evolved insofar as its relaxed rules regarding programming both for and against prevailing social morality. However, in regards to evolving insofar as big guys and little guys being equally gifted as fighter? That has yet to happen. Unlike WWE, mixed martial arts has weight and gender classes, but does well to showcase that all fighters, regardless of size and gender, are equally as dangerous. This concept is one of the things that makes UFC successful, as they're able to push stars that are 150 pounds as well as stars that are 275 pounds, too. If WWE were able to modernize itself and present inter-weight matchups that showed smaller wrestlers oftentimes having a fighting chance in hell against their larger counterparts, WWE could be onto something major. At present, WWE's desire to continuously shove larger wrestlers down our throats at the expense of oftentimes less entertaining smaller ones is not "best for business."
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
