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In response to that Noid post:
The problem is that WWE has gone too far in the that direction of "one star". We're supposed to laser focus on, say, Cena, but they don't bother building anyone else for the long run. Not until another plague of injuries occurs. Not saying everyone needs to be at the top of the card, but there are too many that just aren't doing anything of note.
I mean, in a microcosm, look at the Smackdown tag scene. Why is the New Day/Uso feud neverending? I mean, besides the history book scrubbing thing, it is doing nothing but overexposing those two teams. Meanwhile, the rest of the "division" isn't really doing shit. Over teasing a Hype Bros breakup and/or heel turn, comedy skits with Fashion Police and Ascention, Shelton and Gable are there. Then maybe some NXT blood gets pumped in... but why? Just to languish?
One of the famous Vince-isms is "Perception is reality, pal!" but the company has been doing less and less to make a good portion of their roster seem like anybody. And then, the talent gets blamed for not connecting? Why am I going to care about someone who loses all the time? How is anyone going to get behind *anyone* with 50-50 booking? Everyone is on equal footing, and nobody is championship material.
WWE is focused on the wrong shit. It's nice that they gave Jinder and Roman a push, but they are trying to create artificial demand for those two; Jinder for the cynical India market cash-grab, and Roman to essentially try to recreate The Rock (in terms of marketablity, I mean). They squandered the Ryder Revolution, and the few times he was on TV in an actual match, he was usually jobbing... short lived title reign notwithstanding. It took forever to get behind Daniel Bryan, instead of milking that cow like they would have back in the day. There was a golden opportunity to have Bray Wyatt essentially be the next Undertaker... but they saw fit to job him out at every opportunity to the point where he became a joke and a glorified manager to two tall guys who seem to have fallen off the planet. Curtis Axel was repackaged and promoted... for a couple of weeks before making him into a meatshield lackey and sucking any of the credibility they had just pumped into him away.They managed to squeeze most of the mystique out of Shinsuke. They hit the reset button on Bayley right after she got called up and she's been on a holding pattern since. Hopefully, they don't "get bored" and bury Asuka in a couple of months. They have EVERYTHING they would ever want in Brawn Strowman- tall, burly, strong, and even the rare commodity of being over on that alone- and all signs point to them just fattening him up to be fed to Reigns.
They have time to build other talent, they just squander that time with a boatload of advertisements, recaps of shit we just watched, and the same faces on repeat with promos and backstage segments. NXT is more like RAW used to be - they do more with less. The same people don't need to show up on every airing. Raw and SD and even 205 could do the same. Take time and care to develop these guys and gals instead of expecting them to outpop DX instantly, especially when nobody knows who they are and don't have any reason to latch on to yet another face in the crowd.
Yes, some folks can stand to go away and freshen up like Cody (Rhodes), but there is truly no reason why some of this can't be done in-house. They don't neccessarily need to "trim the fat" as much as they need to learn to take care of the toys they already have instead of trying to run out and get new ones all the time.
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