The Three Words That Ruined WWE
It is a conscription, a graveyard, a joke, a career death sentence, and it is, despite the vibe of perverse hilarity outlined above, so punishingly tedious that it does not even develop a car crash quality. The layout of every show is identical. Every narrative development wilts in the face of scrutiny. The main roster is a creative product that constantly asks the audience to ask questions of the process. This is antithetical to how drama should function.
Ricochet is, in theory, an amazing performer who should appeal to a younger demographic. He was scripted to say, on this week's RAW, that MVP isn't a champ, he's more like a chump.
HAHAHAHA! That's the opposite of what he meant, but it sounded very similar!
"The main roster" is WWE's flagship programming - it is a synonym of WWE, essentially - and those three words are stigmatised as the worst depths to which professional wrestling has plummeted in decades. This is both subjective artistic assessment and objective viewership measurement.
"The main roster" are the words that weaponised the fan backlash against WWE and defined its systemic inability to be a lasting good thing. WWE has its own three word slogan to promote itself: Then. Now. Forever.
"The main roster" might have ruined that last bit, too.