Actually, there are a number of things that Mcmahon has failed at. The big thing he failed at was the XFL. Secondly, Mcmahon failed to capitalize on talents that have gone through the WWE locker room. The third thing Mcmahon failed to capitalize on was ECW. Another failure is the NXT. Tough enough was also another big failure. You can't forget how much of a disaster the womens division in WWE is. Personally, the last thing on my mind is that the WWE channel will fail is because not everyone buys PPV's let alone subscribe to some channel.
To elaborate a little bit on the XFL failure, the league was rather cheesy. I remember reading somewhere along the line that the XFL was going to be a cross between football and wrestling. Instead you had a regular indoor like football league. It might as well have been an expansion of the Arena Football League.
Now there are so many talents that go into the WWE and never really get the chance that is deserved. Look at Mr. Kennedy, or as he is now known as Mr. Anderson. The guy had all the talent in the world and he still does. Mcmahon screwed that up by letting other talents like Randy Orton get involved. I mean common Anderson did nothing wrong. Randy is a seasoned veteran now, but at the time I didn't see Orton as a veteran. I feel like Orton was just trying to get Kennedy out. Kennedy is just one example, but there are many others. Thank goodness that CM Punk, finally, got his chance.
Another failure of Mcmahon was the resurrection of ECW. In my opinion, it was an attempt to give the ECW originals one last time in the lime light and bury the ECW originals by the WWE guys. The first One Night Stand and the second one was great. Everything went to hell after that because you had the originals come back and then suddenly one by one they were all gone with Tommy Dreamer being the last.
To anyone that was into ECW, you know that it was hardcore. It was an innovation. When WWE resurrected it, it wasn't ECW, it was WWE's ECW. It was crap. The original is the best and this is probably a biased opinion, but the point being that instead of capitalizing and making it a success, it was nothing more then a another edition of superstars. I don't recall tuning into SCIFI and seeing a hardcore match. It was all a bunch of regular matches under the ECW banner. Guess what happened next? Mcmahon brought in NXT.
NXT started of as a great concept; it was also innovative. The first season of NXT had the best talents. Look at Daniel Bryan, the guy was the biggest thing in the indepents, mainly ROH. He is a very technical in ring performer. He is a very well skilled in ring performer. For the Miz to degrade him actually pissed me off. This is why, Daniel Bryan was in the wrestling business far before the Miz was and far more talented than the Miz can ever be. To call Daniel Bryan a rookie, when he was not, was just a slap in the face to a guy who is better than eighty percent of the guys existing on the roster today.
Okay, so that kind of went off topic a little bit, but I will go back to say that season one was a success. Anything beyond season one was a poor excuse.
Another failure of Mcmahon was Tough Enough. There were a lot of people that entered that contest who were not even wrestlers. Even if they were tough enough, they sure as hell were not ready to even be on the main roster. Look at Maven, the guy was athletic, but he should have been sent to development. He had no business in the main roster
Maven was just one of the Tough Enough contestants, but even if you look at the tryouts for the competition, it is a joke. To elaborate on tryouts let me look at a certain someone, he goes by the name of Austin Aries. A Double tried out for the competition and he was totally overlooked. I like AA, the guy is good on Mike skills, he could use a little more work on tightening up his in ring performance, but he is good. As good as he was, he got cut from the tryouts. On the other hand you had some model chick, I can't remember her name, but she was a model. She had no previous track record. I am not saying that she would be a bust by any means, but how does someone who has a track record get cut from a competition? This leads me to the Women's Division.
Let me take a look at the division for women in both WWE and TNA. When I look at the Knockouts, I see a bunch of hot babes that actually can kick ass and look good doing it. The women in the Knockout's division are not afraid to get their hands dirty. Look at Velvet Sky, Angelina Love, Mickie James. Those names are just a few to throw around. If you had a interpromotion match with those three against Kelly Kelly, Maryse and Rosa Mendes, my money would be on the Knockouts. The Divas appear to just be eye candy.
Let me be clear on this I love Divas don't get me wrong, but there in ring performance is not the best compared to the Knockouts. In fact, I will say that the best Divas are Natalya, Beth Phoenix, Eve Torres and the Bellas. Those Divas aren't afraid to break a nail and they are all gorgeous. They are not just pretty faces, but once again that is only four Divas that are carrying the rest of the division. Adding insult to injury, WWE has let go of some of the best Divas that they had. Gail Kim and Melina brought something to the table and they still do. Unfortunately, not according to WWE standards.
I am not going to get into too much detail on the channel failing, but it will fail because no one is going to want to pay for another monthly service charge on there cable or satellite bill right now. The economy has messed so many things up and the WWE channel would be another expense that no one really wants to pay. I do hope that it fails though.
Now I have given a lot of details in this post. It will give some insightful information for someone to read. I will say that it is mostly opinion, but it does have facts to back it up. Feel free to correct me on some of the stuff if I am wrong, although, I will be safe to say that I am near accurate.
