What happened to the storylines in WWE?

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Now there have been better storylines than the ones I'm about to mention but I'm watching the Road to WrestleMania 25 and shyt just brought back memories of how WWE used to go all out for storylines, and keep in mind this was the at start of the PG era.






And for a bonus I'll go back a year earlier



Feuds used to feel heated and personal and it really got you invested into the product but now with all of these multiperson matches and "first evers" and the suspension of kayfabe, it's just made the product bland and this really doesn't feel like Mania season at all.

Yeah we know it's scripted hell Power is scripted but 50 Cent not stopping the show 10 minutes in to tell us that Ghost isn't a real person :heh:.
 
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NYSTATEOFMIND said:
Storylines have to have "wrestling logic" and time to build up....nowadays the feuds are done in short iterations which doesnt give fans the payoff a good feud needs. I dont watch wrestling as much as I used to but the last really well done storyline I can remember was WM 21 with HHH vs Batista
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The lack of long term booking has really hurt WWE, the only good long term booking going on right now is Gargano and Ciampa down in NXT and part of that is because Ciampa was hurt.
 
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RammerJammer said:
The lack of long term booking has really hurt WWE, the only good long term booking going on right now is Gargano and Ciampa down in NXT and part of that is because Ciampa was hurt.
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I am sure there have been some examples of good long term booking since WM21 but since I only occassionally watch Raw and clown it here on TCS- I am out of the loop on NXT or if SD accidentally came up with good long term booking
 
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:flabbyvince: Has gotten lazy and it seems like Stephanie and Road Dogg get off on sabotaging people when they’re over than actually booking compelling angles that are interesting.

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I blame fat Joe Anoa'i. The only storyline that matters to them is getting him over.
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He isn’t really the person to blame. Vince would be booking someone else in this storyline if Roman wasn’t there. Honestly I would use the term storyline loosely there too. They don’t put any effort into trying to get him over either. They spend all their time trying to mute or censor or alienate fans who boo him while not actually doing anything remotely interesting with him when it would be infinitely easier to actually do things that get a guy over. There’s never really any storyline. He feuds for a few months with a guy for little to no reason (usually someone with no real provocation costs Roman a match to trigger a feud), a few hollow promos get cut, sometimes the other guy says some funny things, and then they have their match. Sometimes they have a few matches and little if anything happens to change him as a character. It’s a universe mode in wwe 2k formula that honestly they apply to almost all their feuds. The way they book in the modern era would have Steve Austin or the rock looking mid 2000’s Jeff Jarrett levels of boring. Just look at how little they’ve done with broken Matt hardy for example.
 
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I honestly think they've gotten extremely lazy with storylines and with mixing up booking, but part of me feels that it's not just because it's easier.

As much as I want to blame the WWE for being pretty linear with their arcs and feuds, I can't help but remember a few instances, one of which was where this was the reality...

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This was 2011. Now, only 2 of those people work with the company.

They gave Daniel Bryan a SummerSlam win over Cena and the opportunity to stand tall over all of Evolution in one night to main event WrestleMania with the title.

He had to retire.

Gave Punk the longest reign since Sammartino. He's out. The beat goes on...

I remember a particular point in time where Reigns had won the Rumble and everyone was complaining about it (justifiably so, perhaps), but no one had a definitive answer for who would be pushed in his place as the person to face Lesnar because damn near every other choice was injured or a liability for injury.

They pull a big swerve and have Seth cash in for that match and reign as champion....

...only for that reign to be cut short because of injury. Wins the title at Mania and ends up missing the next one.

They bring in Sting for a storyline.

Injured. Damn Retired. fukk.

They create the Universal Title and put it on Balor while he's hot. He's fresh, he's got the look, and the IWC approval. Surely, he....

Injured before he ever defends it.

I was in the building on the night where they tried to create a Bray Wyatt/Roman Reigns tag team in the main event for Raw.

Bray was injured by the next week.

It could be the coincidence, schedule, or the style but sometimes I wonder if they keep guys in repetitive programs and keep the same guys at certain tiers of the card because they're more durable and take less risks while still getting great reactions (for themselves and for the guys they face, which is most important.)

To them, it probably feels like a safer bet and you kind of see how it is when they trust guys. Look at how long they've had the secondary titles on Miz, who proudly lauds being the "King of Safe Style" and have many outside opportunities he gets because he's always available.

They should definitively be more creative with storylines, but I think they're afraid to shake up the dice.
 
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