The title says it all, while i'm not a fan of Vince Russo at all, in fact i really feel he's kinda the reason the WWE product and wrestling as a whole is stuck where it is right now, i still when on and listen to his interview on Sean Mooney's podcast. Mostly out of curiosity then anything else. Anyway, at some point, he said something that i feel reflect what the problem is with today's wrestling and especially WWE, they not enough modern characters on the roster and every is focus on the wrestling instead of telling a captivating story.
When i was a kid, in the 80's you had these over the top cartoon characters on T.V. every saturday morning and they were telling the stories of good vs evil. Like when Hulk hogan went on the brother love show after losing to the ultimate warrior and he got attack and taken out by earthquake or the whole savage vs hogan angle the ran a year. Those guys were telling stories with what they were doing and in the end it didn'T matter if the match was 60 minutes or 10 minutes, fans we're interested in seeing the characters act the final act of their story.
During the attitude era it was the same thing, Everything was centered around characters, if you didn'T have great characters telling a story, you wouldn't have been able to tell a story.
Now in 2018, we still get some characters, Strowman is one of the most popular one, but everything looks the same. I get it, fans like to watch long matches but if their no point to those matches why do them? Really, everybody on the roster right now, except for a few exception, look and feel the same. Nobody is able to tell a compelling story anymore and we have to get theses long boring matches every week on raw and every months on PPV. No wonder the fans are getting disinterested by the current product. Nobody stand out so we get a bunch of guys that look and talk all the same with no character development that seperate them from each other. And the same thing goes with NXT and 205 live right now. i feel like WWE is so focus in pleasing their current audience that they have forgotten what brought them to the dance in the first place, so the product is becoming more and more of a niche product because of it and less peoples are watching it because the product is boring.
Again, it's weird that something Russo said made me think of this but it did and they really need somebody with a new way of thinking to take charge and tell them that they need to change because both Vince and HHH are out of touch with what'S going on right now and i included HHH in this because he's just trying to do what Vince did in the 80's by raiding all the indy's of they're most over guys so that NXT doesn'T have any competition.
When i was a kid, in the 80's you had these over the top cartoon characters on T.V. every saturday morning and they were telling the stories of good vs evil. Like when Hulk hogan went on the brother love show after losing to the ultimate warrior and he got attack and taken out by earthquake or the whole savage vs hogan angle the ran a year. Those guys were telling stories with what they were doing and in the end it didn'T matter if the match was 60 minutes or 10 minutes, fans we're interested in seeing the characters act the final act of their story.
During the attitude era it was the same thing, Everything was centered around characters, if you didn'T have great characters telling a story, you wouldn't have been able to tell a story.
Now in 2018, we still get some characters, Strowman is one of the most popular one, but everything looks the same. I get it, fans like to watch long matches but if their no point to those matches why do them? Really, everybody on the roster right now, except for a few exception, look and feel the same. Nobody is able to tell a compelling story anymore and we have to get theses long boring matches every week on raw and every months on PPV. No wonder the fans are getting disinterested by the current product. Nobody stand out so we get a bunch of guys that look and talk all the same with no character development that seperate them from each other. And the same thing goes with NXT and 205 live right now. i feel like WWE is so focus in pleasing their current audience that they have forgotten what brought them to the dance in the first place, so the product is becoming more and more of a niche product because of it and less peoples are watching it because the product is boring.
Again, it's weird that something Russo said made me think of this but it did and they really need somebody with a new way of thinking to take charge and tell them that they need to change because both Vince and HHH are out of touch with what'S going on right now and i included HHH in this because he's just trying to do what Vince did in the 80's by raiding all the indy's of they're most over guys so that NXT doesn'T have any competition.