It's insane how long Vince has relied on Cena to be the top guy in the company not even Hogan was in that position as long as Cena has now been. It crazy how Vince basically builds shit around one guy until they're no longer there and things go to shit, with Hogan people were getting sick of him after eight or nine years on top and that was without Hogan being featured twice a week or even once a week on TV with a PPV every month unlike today where the top guys get more screen time today in a month (unless they're injured) than Hogan probably did in an entire year during the 80s. Then you have the "New Generation" which no one was able to fill the hole Hogan's drawing power left, you had Vince try and make Diesel into what he thinks the people want and that shit backfires just like it did again with Rocky Maivia is now with Roman.
It took like five years before WWE really found, by a great stroke of luck talent coming into their own and a new direction (thanks ECW) for the company to pick up and grow its audience again with everything that started to build in late 96 and into WrestleMania XIII with Austin and Bret and finally get shit rolling again and Vince inadvertently turning himself into the company's biggest heel and the company exploding in popularity in 1998 and an influx of more, ridiculously talented or at least charismatic people/interesting characters to come along to build the company up even more with a creative that wasn't overly scripting and trying to control every little aspect.
While yeah, after a few years the shtick was getting tiresome largely thanks to the amount of TV time they were getting but unlike Hogan or Cena neither Austin or the Rock (or Foley for that matter) were on top for five years let alone the 10 plus years Cena has been but when they were gone there was still a good crop of guys that as a whole managed hold the fort if you will. Even after ratings started dropping off after the end of WCW and WWE's subsequent fuck up of the invasion angle there was still entertainment to be had outside of Triple H's reign of terror and we had the brand split which at least for a while they stuck to so if you had Triple H's shit on Raw you could watch Smackdown without having to put up with it and Smackdown during that time was great... Until Stephanie's ego lead to Heyman getting fired, yes I've seen the DVD but come on, you know that was why, Stephanie seems to have basically gotten pretty much all of Vince's bad traits, including his pettiness and I'm almost certain Triple H feeds into that regardless of what's being done in NXT.
Shit I'm rambling, I need sleep... Or coke. Nah that would make that an ever bigger mess.
Tyler Breeze Is great. He was over as shit when I saw him live.
Dude has the most modern gimmick wwe has ever had.
Vince only gets acts when they are 5 years past their cultural relativity.
Five years? You're giving Vince too much credit.
EDIT: Tyler Breeze is an okay mid-card gimmick that should be something he's allowed to evolve out of in a few years (which is basically its shelf life) instead of just sent directly to job town on Superstars and Main Event. It's not as if that gimmick hasn't worked several times in the past, his size is probably his biggest shortcoming.
