5 things WWE need to stop doing
WWE is the biggest wrestling promotion in the world for a reason, they have had a formula they have used for the last 30 plus years that has worked. There remains very little in the way of necessary improvement, but that is not to say they do not get things wrong from time to time. Sometimes when you are at the top for so long without competition, it can lead to complacency and often experiment with ideas without the risk of harming the product.
Unlike in the days on the Monday Night Wars, change tends to occur slower in the WWE these days, but there are some details the company should change in their product in order for it to be an overall more compelling show.
Since WWE has no competition, they have more room for error, no one can stand up to WWE in the way WCW did in the late 90's and no one is threatening to do so any time soon.
Overall the product is still good in terms of the bottom line, but if it was to fix a number of bad decision and bad habits it could enjoy a surge in popularity that it once enjoyed during the Attitude Era.
Here are 5 things WWE need to stop doing.
#1 Putting big title matches lower down on the card
For the past three pay-per-views, the WWE championship match between AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura has gone on third from last on the card. It is probably understandable that it didn't go on last at the Greatest Royal Rumble, but at WrestleMania and at Backlash it is a strange decision not to put the Styles vs Nakamura encounter on to close the show.
Styles and Nakamura are two of the most over talents in the WWE right now, their feud is much anticipated but it has not lived up to expectations so far. One of the main reasons for this is none of their matches so far have had that special feel.
The WWE championship is meant to be the holy grail of the company, the title that everyone aspires to hold, but by not putting the match on last, or even the penultimate match of the card, it loses significance.
It is much worse when you consider AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura could have had one of the best combinations of storyline and matches in recent memory. Both are capable of headlining any card on WWE's calendar and yet their bouts have been secondary to the Universal championship and at Backlash a non-title singles match.