Dork Knight said:
That's not even the worst part either.
Where are all the mid-card matches? What are Daniel Bryan, JOMO, Sheamus, Evan Borne, Santino Marella, and Dolph Ziggler doing? Money in the Bank? Are they even doing that this year? If so, shouldn't we know about it by now?
It's really sad how there's no compelling mid-card feuds anymore. Go back and look at old WrestleMania cards and you'll see that *most* every match mattered. Sure, there's often one or two (hell, maybe even three) throwaway matches, but a good deal of them at least had a decent storyline going in. This 'Mania is looking pretty bland. And I thought last year's card was pretty bad.
The current creative structure within the WWE is creatively "handcuffed" in such a way that prevents homegrown talent from being developed and mid-card feuds from being meaningful.
Writers aren't allowed to watch the show to see what works and what doesn't.
Writers aren't allowed to collaborate with wrestlers in order to build interesting gimmicks that play off one another.
A lot of wrestlers don't contribute to the creative process and simply wait for creative to hand them title programs or a TV booking. Apart from that, they just go out and do their same old spots.
The only new talent being built consistently is pushed because of political reasons; such as Del Rio and Sin Cara to eventually fill the void of Rey Mysterio.
Wrestlers aren't coached on how to improvize or adlib. The best thing that could happen would be to hire a bunch of improv comics to get these guys to think on their feet and be entertaining within a PG framework.
Watching 1999 era RAW last night was a breath of fresh air. Every match was fuelled by a feud of some kind instead of being something that's "just there" while Cole verbally fellates Miz or badgers Josh/Lawler/Booker or talks about the main event or screams NERD NERD NERD. All 5 members of De-Generation X had their own unique feuds going with different talent in addition to their own against the Corporation.
It was a completely different product and yet still featured Cole & Lawler on commentary. Go fig.
