4 Valid Reasons WWE Fans Have To Dislike The Product

WWE was in a very bad place in the last decade with Vince McMahon in charge, but when he was forced into retirement, wrestling fans were excited to see an actual wrestling fan like Triple H take over. He’d already shown what he could do with NXT, and now he had the chance to reshape WWE. He did just that, bringing back stars who’d been let go, like Bray Wyatt, and making matches and titles matter more, but sometime over the past year, WWE has gotten lazy. It’s as if they got the bag from Netflix and stopped trying. Now, WWE, while not as bad as it was around 2019, is beginning to falter. Here’s four ways where WWE is failing fans.

WWE Has Gotten Political Behind The Scenes

Triple H & Roman Reigns Turned Off Fans

One big way WWE has messed up in the past few months is by creating their own form of tribalism. Social media users are already often guilty of pitting WWE vs. AEW, where you are told you must love one and hate the other, but if you truly love the sport, you watch great wrestling wherever it is. WWE, though, has gotten very cocky. Sometimes it’s comments Triple H makes about free agents not choosing WWE because they don’t want to work the grind, or Nick Khan making passive-aggressive comments about AEW’s Nick Khan.

Before WrestleMania 41, WWE really botched it, with both Triple H and Roman Reigns praising Donald Trump. As the most divisive person in the world, it makes no sense why anyone would bring him up in wrestling. This is already on top of WWE working with Trump supporters like Logan Paul and Hulk Hogan. It serves to only turn away fans who might normally watch WWE but are disgusted by how political they’ve become.

Triple H Has Failed The Women’s Tag Team Division

Several Great Women’s Wrestlers Were Released

Here’s an argument that can be put on repeat every single year: the women’s tag team division is atrocious. When WWE created the titles, it was an exciting opportunity that could give the women’s roster more to do. Instead, it’s been a disaster. Titles change hands frequently, teams are often thrown together rather than built up, and the titles themselves are often ignored, only defended here and there on TV and rarely on PLEs. WWE could have really done something big with the women’s tag titles, especially when another company like AEW doesn’t have them.

Fans were frustrated about how many women’s wrestlers were recently released. Fired were Dakota Kai, Shayna Baszler, Cora Jade, Kayden Carter, and Katana Chance. WWE could easily have a great women’s tag team division, but instead they get rid of anyone good. Carter and Chance were exciting to watch in the ring, but despite the crowd getting behind them, their push died and they disappeared. WWE was doing a good job of making titles matter, but there’s still zero reason to care about the women’s tag gold.

WWE Booking Has Gotten Lazy

It’s The Same Old Promos And Match DQs

The problems with the women’s tag team division represent a major issue with WWE overall at the moment. It has gotten redundant and boring. Every Raw or SmackDown is going to start with the wrestlers shown walking into the building, then we’re going to get the same old promos and matches. How often before fans get sick of someone like Jey Uso and his never-ending entrances and utterances of “YEET”?

When Triple H first took over, he made the product unpredictable, but maybe that’s only because it was new. As the years have gone by, the approach hasn’t really changed. If anything, it’s taken a step back. It’s starting to feel like the worst Vince McMahon days when all that mattered was the business side and the on-screen creativity was second. You can see this in the number of lazy match DQs on Raw and SmackDown, or John Cena’s overbooked messes. Between that, the ring mat covered in sponsors, and there being more ads during PLEs, it’s as if WWE is a big commercial with some wrestling included.

John Cena’s Heel Turn Has Fallen Flat

The Rock’s Absence Made Things Much Worse

If WWE has gotten lazy, their biggest dropped ball has been the heel turn of John Cena. It was a huge, shocking moment when he turned on Cody Rhodes at Elimination Chamber. Fans were very invested to see what happened next, but WWE did next to nothing with it. Instead of crafting a compelling story, Cena was given the dull “I hate the fans” heel routine. Meanwhile, WWE made Cody Rhodes look dumb for not attacking Cena and getting his revenge. This insulted the fans, who had to watch as the face of WWE was made a fool of yet again.

Perhaps the angle could have been saved at WrestleMania 41, but the main event ended up being a big letdown. Not only was the match boring, but Cody Rhodes was one more time booked to look like an idiot, and The Rock, who was a focal point at Elimination Chamber, never showed up. That was frustrating, but it is what it is. This is to be expected from The Rock, who now shows up whenever he wants. It’s what it points to that really matters. It was the worst of the Vince McMahon era, where big angles didn’t always get a payoff. WWE is telling you not to get too invested, because that storyline you’re excited about could just disappear.

WWE is still doing well, but the shine from the Triple H era is gone. The company is running in place with nearly everything it’s doing, or hitting potholes they dug themselves. If you dislike what WWE is doing, it’s totally understandable, because there are many fans that feel the same way.