7 Wrestling Gimmicks WWE Should Recycle
2. The Main Event Heel Stable
The glorious aberration of The Shield aside, WWE's form with stables has been inconsistent at best in recent years.
3MB and the Social Outcasts were harmless, but elsewhere, the League of Nations were a total chore to sit through. Blatantly thrown together in a fit of desperation, their modus operandi was nonexistent. They preached halfhearted anti-American sentiments - and while they feuded with American Roman Reigns, the man hardly professed his patriotism.
A great main event heel stable - like the Four Horsemen and Evolution - gifts bookers/writers with years' worth of engaging - and tested - storylines. They possess a numbers advantage of their babyface foes, imbuing rivalries with psychologically-sound heat and, and in the case of the ubiquitous beat-down, genuine emotion. Their dominance over the company lends it winning continuity, and presents a deluge of multi-man tag and handicap affairs. With a dominant faction at the heart of a company, programming writes itself.
And, just as the act reaches its apex, an underling, who has learned under the on and offscreen tutelage of their mentors, is afforded a gilt-edged opportunity to enter a proven (and much-anticipated) main event series and emerge from it as a star.
Enough time has passed since the days of Evolution (brief 2014 reformation not withstanding) - let's hope there is fire where there's smoke.