8 Times WWE Failed To Make New Stars In 2015

So many blown chances...

Aside from failing ratings, if 2015 is remembered for anything it's WWE's failure to create new stars. The roster is full of talented workers, but a startling few of them are actually over to any significant degree. That€™s a serious problem and one that needs to be rectified immediately. The previous way of doing things would be to take a wrestler you wanted to see ascend to the next level, book him in a program with someone higher up the card than he and have the more established worker go out of his way to put the up-and-coming guy over, hopefully €œmaking€ him in the process. Mick Foley did it for Triple H. Ric Flair did it for Sting (and about a hundred other guys). Bret Hart did it for Steve Austin. It€™s a tried and true formula that has always worked, The issue now is twofold: WWE has apparently forgotten how to utilize that formula and, even if they did remember how, there aren€™t a lot of people left on the roster with any credibility to transfer over to anyone else. You€™ve basically got Brock Lesnar, John Cena, The Undertaker and Triple H as the only people who could conceivably €œmake€ new stars and none of those four are active wrestlers in WWE at the moment. There have been far too many times in 2015 where workers could have been taken to the next level but, for one reason or another, the company fumbled the ball and missed out on key opportunities to put their talent in better positions. Let€™s take a look at those examples, and see what exactly went wrong.

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