For years fans and analysts of WWE have been clamoring for some new blood to be injected into the main event mix. There's only so many times that you can see some combination of Randy Orton, Triple H and John Cena wrestling in the main event before fans start to tune out.
Since 2009, Vince McMahon has talked about easing some new guys into the main event mix, and to a point they have done that over the last two years. Guys like The Miz and Alberto Del Rio have been given pushes, though the degree with which both men have been pushed is nothing close to how Orton and Cena get pushed.
McMahon has no patience to let anything grow at all, and as a result WWE's "youth movement" appears to be dead in its tracks.
As Richard Gray from WrestlingNewsWorld.com wrote, "... the fact that Vince McMahon has been disappointed with how poor of a job WWE Tough Enough did in producing new marketable talent has caused him to "lighten up" on focusing solely on the 'youth movement' in the company."
I think it's laughable that McMahon would use a television show that featured no guys who have ever worked in WWE as a way of determining whether or not to push guys who have actually worked for him for a long time, but that's another story.
Is it beating a dead horse to say that McMahon needs to lighten up and realize that this business is a process and it takes some time to create new stars? I don't think it's as hard or takes as long as he thinks it does, but it does take time nonetheless.
Look at the predicament WWE is in right now with only Cena and Orton as the "established stars" on the roster. (CM Punk is right now, but we don't know his future with the company or how long before WWE decides to bury him because he is an outsider). If one of those two guys gets hurt, WWE has no depth to make up for their loss.
WWE isn't popping a good buyrate with Cena and Orton main eventing, so what could it hurt to give a serious push to someone like Daniel Bryan, Evan Bourne or Jack Swagger? All those guys are good workers and have personalities that can get over with the crowd.
But because there is no patience (and guys like Bryan and Bourne don't have the body type that McMahon likes) they aren't going to get pushed and no one will ever get over except the two guys that are already over.
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