I hear a lot of talk about people being very tired of seeing Big Show, Kane and Mark Henry on WWE so often. Not just that they are 'on' WWE but that they are often in matches and pretty big storylines STILL after all these years.
You know what I say to those people? I agree!
BUT I understand the business side of why they are still around. From Vince's perspective he knows they are good workers (when healthy) and they are remarkably still mostly healthy enough each year to compete. He sees them as having still a lot of value. Mostly value in putting others over. For kids who are only 8 or so and just started watching WWE about 3 years ago, they haven't seen Big Show, Kane or Mark Henry too much so to them they are big, interesting characters. I've heard kids that age talk a lot about those guys because clearly they still impress kids.
The problem is, as much as WWE is focused on kids there is still a large audience of teens, young adults and older adults. Those people HAVE probably seen too much of Big Show, Kane and Mark Henry and they probably are like most of us and are just tired of seeing them so much. Not because they aren't good workers or they don't respect their accomplishments but because they KNOW the outcome and know there isn't much NEW that can happen.
To my point. Big Show is 42, Mark Henry is 43 and Kane is 47. To still be able to wrestle at that age is amazing. I totally respect that and I imagine most of you do too. But I think WWE would have been much better off if they did something for these guys about 5 years ago ...
Sign them to a LEGENDS contract. Or whatever the type of contract RVD and Jericho have.
That would have been so much better. We all would have tired of these guys a lot less! Like the guys I mentioned above, RVD and Jericho have been more 'out' of WWE than 'in' over the last 5 years but when they came back it was cool, it was refreshing and interesting for most of us because we weren't worn out from seeing them every week.
If they signed these guys to Legends contracts like this like 5 years ago it would have been better. Mark Henry still could have had his impressive, but short, run as World Heavyweight Champion because they only needed him for maybe 6 months (even if he was healthy).
Big Show could have come back at that time for a couple months and still done a good feud with Mark Henry ending after that ring collapse!
Kane could have really made a good comeback as demon, mask-wearing Kane multiple times to better effect that he has while he was a regular. I think his feud with Cena a while back would have been more interesting if Kane had been gone for a year or so and surprisingly came back to target Cena. Kane vs Wyatt could have been better too if they came back after being away a while to face Wyatt or if Kane came back a few weeks earlier and Wyatt targeted him.
So my question is do you think that if Big Show, Mark Henry and Kane were on Legend/Part-Time Contracts like 5 years ago it would have been better of for WWE fans and WWE business?
You know what I say to those people? I agree!
BUT I understand the business side of why they are still around. From Vince's perspective he knows they are good workers (when healthy) and they are remarkably still mostly healthy enough each year to compete. He sees them as having still a lot of value. Mostly value in putting others over. For kids who are only 8 or so and just started watching WWE about 3 years ago, they haven't seen Big Show, Kane or Mark Henry too much so to them they are big, interesting characters. I've heard kids that age talk a lot about those guys because clearly they still impress kids.
The problem is, as much as WWE is focused on kids there is still a large audience of teens, young adults and older adults. Those people HAVE probably seen too much of Big Show, Kane and Mark Henry and they probably are like most of us and are just tired of seeing them so much. Not because they aren't good workers or they don't respect their accomplishments but because they KNOW the outcome and know there isn't much NEW that can happen.
To my point. Big Show is 42, Mark Henry is 43 and Kane is 47. To still be able to wrestle at that age is amazing. I totally respect that and I imagine most of you do too. But I think WWE would have been much better off if they did something for these guys about 5 years ago ...
Sign them to a LEGENDS contract. Or whatever the type of contract RVD and Jericho have.
That would have been so much better. We all would have tired of these guys a lot less! Like the guys I mentioned above, RVD and Jericho have been more 'out' of WWE than 'in' over the last 5 years but when they came back it was cool, it was refreshing and interesting for most of us because we weren't worn out from seeing them every week.
If they signed these guys to Legends contracts like this like 5 years ago it would have been better. Mark Henry still could have had his impressive, but short, run as World Heavyweight Champion because they only needed him for maybe 6 months (even if he was healthy).
Big Show could have come back at that time for a couple months and still done a good feud with Mark Henry ending after that ring collapse!
Kane could have really made a good comeback as demon, mask-wearing Kane multiple times to better effect that he has while he was a regular. I think his feud with Cena a while back would have been more interesting if Kane had been gone for a year or so and surprisingly came back to target Cena. Kane vs Wyatt could have been better too if they came back after being away a while to face Wyatt or if Kane came back a few weeks earlier and Wyatt targeted him.
So my question is do you think that if Big Show, Mark Henry and Kane were on Legend/Part-Time Contracts like 5 years ago it would have been better of for WWE fans and WWE business?
