WWE Reality

The Main Roster WWE product has been very poor as of late.  They can't seem to get anything right even the return of the Authority.  While they have been struggling for balance the NXT product continues to get high praise with HHH in charge.  Vince's ability to lead has been called into question while HHH looks like the next great promoter.  Is there a cold war in the WWE for ultimate control or is Vince swerving us all to swing HHH in to the big chair while protecting his stock price?  I haven't decided what I believe yet, but the facts suggest that something is amiss.

NXT puzzles me.  I find the product very refreshing and enjoyable, but I wonder why the roster is so stockpiled while the main roster in need of talent.  I'm beginning to believe that the WWE is treating NXT less like developmental and more like a brand.  A brand run by HHH proving he can run a successful show.

That's why he was out front at NXT Arrival doing the intro.  He's also being put upfront as the man behind the Performance Center with Vince having no interest and little input.  He's being deliberately behind shown behind the scenes of NXT on WWE.com supporting the talent.  Sometimes this is done as a work, but the point of this is obviously to show that HHH has his hands in NXT.  Let's not also forget all those twitter posts he has made with NXT talent.

I've taken issue with this because HHH is portraying the main heel on the WWE main roster right now.  Why show him being a good guy?  It confuses the audience.  The only explanation beyond feeding his own ego is to make sure everyone within the company and the fan base see HHH is in charge.

With the main roster starved for fresh heel talent, it makes perfect sense for them to draw stars out of NXT ready or not.  Yet, WWE continues to drive the same old same old product and ignore the fresh crop seemingly right under their hands.  They have two experienced fresh heels in their NXT roster that are on the wrong side of 30 with 10 years plus in the business already.

Finn Balor was head of the Bullet Club in New Japan Pro Wrestling.  That's the second biggest wrestling company in the world behind WWE.  He's headlined shows in front of 50 thousand plus people.  He's been on TV a ton.  He's an insane talent and he's also 33 years old.  That's right Finn is no spring chicken.  Yet, WWE felt it was correct to send him to NXT.  He signed in July, but didn't debut in a match until October.  Were they teaching him how to run the ropes for 3 months?

You can make the same case for Kevin Owens who's 30 years old.  Owens may have needed to get in a bit better shape, but otherwise his promo work and in ring work to this point has been stellar.  What's does he have to prove in NXT?

It really seems ridiculous when you think about it.  What are Balor and Owens doing wasting away in NXT for?  So they can learn where the WWE prefers to position it's camera's?

For those of you who think that transition from NXT happens quickly don't believe that fact.  Adrian Neville has been in NXT for 3 years.  His gimmick has barely changed from pre-WWE.  He may have improved on the mic a bit, but isn't that something he could have worked on doing promo's on Smackdown?  Why is a talent like Neville still in NXT when the main roster is starved for anyone that can do what he does?

When they aren't dragging out the call ups WWE is botching the transitions.  The Ascension were formed in the summer of 2013 and held the NXT tag titles for one day short of a year.  Yet the WWE just called them up to close out 2014.  That's right they held the tag title for a nearly a year, but it took WWE this long to call them up.  After doing so you thought it was easy just keep the same gimmick that was working in NXT and improve on it where possible.

Instead they repackaged them so they looked like a hybrid Demolition or Road Warriors.  I think many would have let this go by the boards, but WWE chose to have the group acknowledge the comparisons.  This immediately made the team seem hokey and easy cannon fonder for the most casual of WWE's fans.  Add into that the WWE booked them in third hour of Raw as two screaming idiots this week taking on two absolute jobbers.  We haven't seen local jobbers on Raw in the third hour ever.

I felt like this was a being done purposely.  A way of making people believe that maybe these guys and all the rest of the NXT roster should stay there as a brand on to itself.  If you combine by that with that fact that guys are being kept down there way too long despite there age it all starts to make sense to me.

They say in every crime you need a motive.  It's really simple in this case.  If Vince were to step down as WWE's top guy the stock price would plummet.  What major wrestling company has ever survived in the US that was not run by Vince McMahon?  So, Vince wants to paint HHH in the best light possible.  Put him in a no fail position in NXT and then run down the main roster so everyone starts questioning his own ability. (Mind you Dusty Rhodes is helping to book the NXT shows currently, so it's far beyond just HHH calling the shots.)

When the timing seems just right HHH is put into power.  He immediately calls up all the talent he has in place from NXT to recharge the main roster.  The WWE isn't hurt in the least if they stripped NXT bone dry because the show is basically just a bonus when you get the network anyway.  Plus it's easy to restock with guys that need to be repackaged and fresh new talent.

Think about Neville, Bryan, Cena, Owens, Zayn, Sting, Rollins, Reigns, Ambrose, Balor, Itami, just to name a few.  Anyone of those match ups is a main event on a PPV within a few weeks.  You could start that revolution next Monday and the show would light up twitter like a Christmas tree.  CM Punk would be a thing of the past.

HHH would receive praise from all corners of the wrestling world.  What a great idea for him to bring up all those guys people would say.  Vince could probably go to a part time schedule playing the role of figure head and relaxing a bit more while the stock price rises and stabilizes behind his handpicked successor.

Sound far fetched?  Perhaps, it's a bit area 51, but the pieces fall into place quite nicely.  The holes I could poke in this is that Vince could openly name HHH as the defacto head guy right now.  He could then say that he has Veto power over him, but behind the scenes take a huge step back.  Let it leak out that HHH really is running things.  The shareholders would likely see the spike in ratings if HHH made the correct moves and the price would rise as the ratings do.

Another is that Vince is obsessed with WWE.  Why would he ever walk away?  He loves his product.  What's happening is a cold war between he and HHH where HHH is sabotaging Vince by playing backstage politics and Vince is surrounding himself with an incompetent writing staff and group of  moronic yes man advisers and he really has lost touch.  When you really think about that it makes sense, but I just can't believe this Vince is totally different from the Vince that ran the company in the late 90's.

I would say it's all just BS, but it's the backstage leaks that make me think there is more than meets the eye.  In the past two years more info has been leaked about Vince and HHH than we have previously ever heard and I'm not talking about the CM Punk stuff.  You hear more and more about Vince rewriting shows and HHH pushing for things.

It's all hard to say, but I'm just forced to think that there is much more to meet the eye with this entire situation.  I will continue to form my opinion over the coming months, and observe how this all plays out.  Sadly I think the drama behind the curtain is far surpassing what is happening in front of the curtain.