Who is wrestling's next big mainstream star (ala Hogan-Rock-Austin-Cena)?

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No one. Cena only got his spot because he's the ultimate company man, great ambassador and a robot who never gets hurt or stops working. They don't like people to get too big and have too much political power.
This the real answer but if I was in charge it could go either one from Braun, JJ, or Elias
 

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If you would've in 2014-15, I would've said Punk, Bryan, Rollins, or Reigns but now with WWE's current philosophy? No one.

Now outside of WWE, I guess the Omegas, Ricochets of the world but NJPW isn't near WWE in terms of popularity.

I really don't know if there will ever be a wrestler as big mainstream wise as Rock or Austin
 

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Roman Reigns, Kevin Owens.

Chicks n kids at live events buy ALOT of Roman merch. Plus dude got that action star look about him. Vince ain't a dummy.

Kevin Owens is gonna be HUGE when he turns face. Dude can be funny, be ruthless, or mix of both.
 

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No one until they revamp the entire presentation of the company.

No one. Cena only got his spot because he's the ultimate company man, great ambassador and a robot who never gets hurt or stops working. They don't like people to get too big and have too much political power.

These. WWE is ice cold in terms of mainstream appeal, and the company purposefully avoids pushing talents too hard because they want the WWE brand itself to be the main draw.

Now there are people I believe have crossover appeal. Sasha, New Day, Seth, The Usos, Naomi, etc. But if any of them breaks out, it's going to be a freak accident or it'll be after they've left the company.
 

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These. WWE is ice cold in terms of mainstream appeal, and the company purposefully avoids pushing talents too hard because they want the WWE brand itself to be the main draw.

Now there are people I believe have crossover appeal. Sasha, New Day, Seth, The Usos, Naomi, etc. But if any of them breaks out, it's going to be a freak accident or it'll be after they've left the company.
This is it really. Vince is still scarred from how hogan, rock, Austin, Flair, and Brock all left on their own terms or had leverage over him to get what they wanted at some point and he doesn’t want anyone to ever have that sort of power except him. The problem is that at no point in wrestling history has the brand been the draw. It’s always been the wrestlers themselves. Wrestlemania doesn’t become big without Hogan, savage, Andre, piper, DiBiase, and guys like that. The mid 90’s boom doesn’t happen without the nwo, Steve Austin becoming a top guy, the hart and Michael’s feud of 1997, Goldberg taking off out of nowhere, taker and kane’s Whole story, or the rock becoming a star. What we have now is basically as if all of these things were blatantly sabotaged so that the 3 letters of each promotion would always be bigger than the wrestlers. All these guys would feel worthless and nobody would see them as strong enough reason to tune in.
 

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No one only a handful of guys have enough charisma but the people in charge are fukking marks. They pretend to follow business projections but that is used to justify them being marks for themselves and their chosen ones and to be controversial most of the most of these guys aren't better than Christian when it comes to being a complete wrestler.
 

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There are no stars when you can only fill up half of the building

I wonder if Ronda will be a draw when she comes in, or if she will have any drawing power at all. That ABC show she was on had a 0.67 rating

Once Ronda was put to sleep in her last match, that ruined any type of viewers she could bring in to the WWE. All this Four Horsewomen stuff they've been pushing is way too late. Everybody involved (including Becky, Charlotte, Bayley, and Sasha) have all taken hits and had their steam simmered down at various times, and there's simply no need to even go back to that other than some 1-off Survivor Series match.
 
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