Anyone else agree with me that the quality of WWE has dropped dramatically in the past five years? It was around then I stopped watching full time because the matches started getting very predictable, with constant interferences, and the kayfabe nature of the matches started become more and more obvious. I watch here and there, just to keep up-to-date, but I mostly watch the older matches. The 2008 Royal Rumble for example, was one of the best, and worst matches I've seen. Up until the entrances of Triple H and John Cena, it seemed like anyone could have had it, and it hardly looked scripted, and then those two single-handedly eliminated everyone remaining. John Cena making a return and being the last entrant made it pretty obvious that he would win it.
I think also that the quality of the matches has been hurt by the fact that there is less variety among the wrestlers in terms of size and style. In recent years we've lost people such as Matt & Jeff Hardy, The Dudley Boys, Chris Benoit, Mick Foley, Big Daddy V, Rob van Dam, Umaga, Paul London & Brian Kendrick, Shaun Michaels, Psicosis & Super Crazy, Shelton Benjamin etc. All these wrestlers had distinctive fighting styles which brought variety to the wrestling, and sadly, some have died and the others have left and/or retired, and they've been replaced by far less interesting people. I realise that WWE has always favored certain wrestlers and continuously given them main event pushes, but now they're doing with people who are basically boring, and sometimes quite annoying. I.e Randy Orton, Sheamus, Chris Jericho, Alberto del Rio, John Cena and Triple H. For once it would nice to see one of the lesser wrestlers with the Royal Rumble of a major title belt.
The Royal Rumble this year speaks volumes about the situation. I hadn't realised that Daniel Bryan was so popular, and it just seems weird to bring back the semi-popular Batista, who fought like an old, retired wrestler.
I miss the attitude era.
Rant over.
