Smark Rant: Are We In The Darkest WWE Timeline?

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Hey, Scott. Love the blog and books. We IWC people bitch about the product pretty consistently, but is it fair to say that 2014’s weekly WWE TV product after Wrestlemania was the worst it’s been since ’94 or so? I’ve been watching for a long time, and it really feels like it’s gotten so bad that it’s almost beyond comprehension. Pick any young, hot commodity from 2014, (Cesaro, Wyatt, Ambrose, even Dallas…) and chart their booking, and it really defies description it’s so abysmal. Am I alone in this, or are we in the darkest timeline for mainstream wrestling?

Things are getting pretty bleak, no doubt. I think a lot of what ails the company is the departure of Daniel Bryan right after his hottest moment ever, winning the big one at Wrestlemania and supposedly ascending to the “face of the company” spot that he had been chasing for months…. >>>

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