"No one in the WWE is over"- According to Dave Meltzer
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>Dave Meltzer is concerned over WWE’s lack of actual drawing power according to the end of his Money in the Bank review. He’s worried that due to WWE’s aggressive need to pull off a large surplus of stars off of the NXT roster to make space for the Raw and Smackdown draft that most of the talent transitioned off NXT “Just aren’t ready for real programming yet”
>The two biggest examples of this come in the form of Apollo Crews due to his lack of gimmick and Baron Corbin whom Dave has referred to as “Painfully Medicore” with the only thing going for him is “He’s really tall which is what Vince appreciates in a wrestler chosen to succeed by him”
>Another star Dave appears to be the most worried about is Seth Rollins and WWE’s inability to seem to wanna make him a top babyface. This doesn’t appear to be an issue with Roman Reigns anymore as its starting to become more and more apparent that Vince only cares about Roman as his top draw regardless of what the crowd identify him as. He could be a top heel and Vince will push him like a babyface like he would The Rock during The Rock/Austin build to Mania 17
>Minor topics also include how stars like Dolph Ziggler work too fast in front of more non-experienced rookies making the matches seem either formulaic or just downright bad.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_bNHBV9FSg
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqlcpjE6o18
>>1406061
>According to Dave Meltzer
>>1406061
he's right, they focus too much on Roman who isn't a draw that no-one else can be a draw - why would the fans care about X and Y if the company don't.
>>1406061
"No one in the WWE is over" is a clickbait-tier statement to head that off with.
But he's right that they can't build anyone up. It's either a main event, forced-as-fuck hotshot, or an inconsistent midcard push that marks are afraid to rally behind, because WWE may forget they exist for weeks at a time or drop their stories outright.
How to create 3 stars at this very moment
1.) Tell Dolph to fuck off for 6 months and to adopt an even more HBK-esque gimmick upon return. Upon return, have him fued with only good workers for the next 6 months. He regains his reputation as a good worker. Congratulations, Dolph is now over again.
2.) Turn Seth baby face. Congratulations, Seth is even more over
3.) Turn Roman heel in 30 days
>>1406295
> dolph
> any chance of being a star
Stopped reading on the second line
Neck yourself
>>1406295
>his answer is literally "book them right"
Well fuck sherlock if they were competent enough to do that they'd have a roster of stars.
>>1406333
yea was sure not a star when he cashed in mitb on del rio. fucking virgin.
>>1406344
That was a fucking while ago, nobody sensible cares about him because everyone knows his time has passed and WWE didn't do shit
There are good wrestlers and there's potential to make them all popular but the writing is just too crass.
>>1406319
Fuck off you little crybaby
>>1406390
Its never too late.
Henry wasnt doing much till he got hot as hell during HoP.
>According to Dave Meltzer
stopped reading right there
>>1406061
Meltzer doesn't care unless it happens in the Tokyodome