Date: 18/03/19 | Written By Mark Connor
Jack Williams asked Mark Connor: "WWE, the most known and biggest wrestling company of all time, hard to dispute it's success, but is it really healthy for the sport as a whole?"
WWE has always been a greedy company in regards to what it wants, and even 30 years on from Vince McMahon Jr's early success', they still aren't satisfied with it's global billion dollar empire. Paul Levesque, The heir to the WWE throne is just the same as Vince Jr, always wanting more. The WWE as a company don't like to see healthy competition in the wrestling business, as recent attempts to halt ROH wrestling [which were believed to be on good terms with WWE] from running events at New York City's Madison Square Garden arena. They are happy to suck up every last drop of talent from the indie circuits, but they have zero respect for them at all. If WWE want big names and top talents to come to them, they need to allow Indies to thrive and not just survive.
The only way that young unheard of talents are going to get exposure is by Indies, as probably not even 90% of the world's wrestlers get the chance to go to attend their developmental system until they are at least scouted or heard of, which means that almost the entire wrestling business would be NOTHING without the Independent's. Indies can only produce the talent when it is at its best, with good shows filled with top drawing stars to draw in crowds and in turn make them money, which in turn allows them to be able to plough more money into giving more up and comers a chance to get to places like WWE. All of this means that WWE should be leaving these companies with at least a handful of top names and talents to allow them to work with rookies and newcomers to help them grow into the next John Cena's and the next AJ Styles', But WWE won't and aren't doing that. They will take an entire roster iof a company that is viewed as an exciting product f they feel it is worth it just to prevent the stars from working their shows [IE Lucha Underground abd ROH come to mind]. Most times, they end up firing them after their trial deals are up anyway.
You look at WWE's roster, including all of the talent yet to debut, and talents that are being repackaged and those on the injury rosters, They have more talent than the shows to put them on. yet they still keep on draining the Indie talent pools for more. Look at several stars on the main rosters and even NXT rosters, Many are waiting to debut because the company and writers have nothing for them, But they still sign dozens of stars at a time. Current star Samoa Joe, who was practically a prodigy of the Indie's until his big WWE break, has recently defended WWE's approach to raiding talents from the Indies. If they're no Indies, then people like Joe wouldn't have had anywhere to showcase his talents for WWE to see him. Because along time ago the likes of Bobby Roode, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Daniel Bryan, were all brought in for tryouts, but they were all let go. It was the Indies like ROH, and other smaller companies like Impact Wrestling [fka TNA] that allowed them to be showcased while WWE rejected them.
Toby Battle of Through The Ropes will agree with me on this, that WWE are killing the business purely for the sake of not just being the number one, But the ONLY one."
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