The One Faction WWE Need To Push In 2019
Undisputed Champions.
If it seems a little... internet-y to start a WWE piece with discussion on yet another truly transcendent recent NXT TakeOver card, consider that a) this is on the internet - only WWE still use internet as an adjective in 2019 anyway, and b) perhaps the relentless praise you'll read here and elsewhere for the developmental crew renders an instantly negative take redundant on its own terms.
TakeOver: New York was sublime. Another show precision engineered to bring global audiences to popping point over and over again, a card rich in concept was somehow even richer in execution. And yet, no matter how much a supershow of this calibre allows you to fall head-over-heels for the men and women making all the right moves, the love is tinged with looming heartbreak.
As of the 2019 WrestleMania weekend spectacular, the product has again surpassed its prior apex, but long-standing fans of the black-and-yellow brand are now starting to understand the frustrations of those that have previously tried and failed to grab one of Vince McMahon's "brass rings" themselves. The joy of a former fave making it to the main roster is rapidly undone by bullsh*t booking or a numbskulled name change. The Viking Experience debacle wasn't a checkpoint but merely another embarrassing chapter. Aleister Black's recent catchphrase-heavy SmackDown Live soliloquies signify the same sh*tshow.
This isn't another article on how and why Vince McMahon is completely knackering the most important part of the Performance Center process, but the titular faction can't change WWE if WWE won't change itself.
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