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Originally Posted by MacFlame
Booking is hugely important....no doubt. Not arguing that at all. Its been terrible lately.
However, talent still has to get over. Some of the best, most legendary wrestlers had terrible gimmicks and were booked horribly early on too. Some wrestlers that were heavily pushed never amounted to much. Its not 100% on creative. It never is. It never was.
There's also a difference between being in your 30's and almost 40 (10 years if my math is correct) Kevin Owens is 37 NOW. Samoa Joe is 42 NOW. Robert Roode is 44 NOW. Sami Zayn is 37 NOW. Nakamura is 41 NOW. McIntyre is 36 NOW.
And...we're talking about the product being stale and that most of these guys arent over in terms of main event status.
So now, who do they have to come in and cycle these stars out with?
Keith Lee: 36
LA Knight: 38
Kross: 36
Matt Riddle: 35
Ciampa: 36
Gargano: 34
O'Reilly:34
Bronson Reed (cut): 33.
Who's coming onto RAW to take the show over for the next 10 years? All of these guys will be in their 40's (or close to) by the time they're ready to do that.
It's why we're seeing a shift in the direction of NXT.
WWE creative has been terrible....no doubt. But they won't be able to get out of this if they don't have anyone in their 20 ready take over.
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Here is the problem though.
WWE has been hiring tons of young names for the development center over the last 10 years, it's not like they've only hired the more well known indie guys for NXT. Problem is they haven't really been able to actually convert any of those young guys to stars. They've had to hire the well known guys off the indies to try to fill the gap because the Performance Center has failed at creating their own guys internally.
So the question is are they focused on the wrong type of people to start with, or is the performance center just bad?