WWE Has "Push-Itus", And It's Hurting Their Stars

We're all familiar with the concept of a wrestler receiving a push, but recently the WWE have gone slightly overboard. In my opinion there are far to many people being "pushed" at the moment, and I think it may be having the opposite effect desired.

Before I try and explain what I mean I want to point out a few key examples, so what I’m trying to say makes more sense. Here’s a quick run down of some wrestler’s who are receiving pushes in slightly different ways:

Some pushes are just that; out and out pushes where the wrestler becomes super-human and will win the majority of their matches. Good examples of these are Jeff Hardy and Randy Orton.

Jeff and Randy have had a lot of success recently, receiving backing from the fans and converting this support into results. Not many who stand in their way come out on the winning end.

There are a few who at one point fell into the previous bracket but then after a given period have slipped into a kind of push limbo; where the creative team don’t want to portray them as weak, but at the same time their success is limited.

Perfect examples of these wrestlers are Rey Mysterio and Kane. Seen as quite powerful within their brand but when they come up against those being pushed currently, they usually lose out.

The complete opposite to this group is the group of superstars who received a push that never seemed to end. This group is home to the likes of Triple H, Undertaker, HBK, and John Cena.

Picking a winner between somebody in this category and somebody currently receiving a push is difficult, because these guys rarely lose. But taking away momentum from somebody like Randy Orton or Jeff Hardy is something the WWE do not want to do, so it does happen.

Then you get the guys that in theory are being pushed but it never seems to show. My best example is Vladimir Kozlov. Kozlov is supposedly undefeated (I think, I don’t know whether his loss at No Way Out counts) but if he has a match against anyone with any credit the match either ends in disqualification or his opponents gets screwed over.

The Great Khali in some respects falls into this category but I really don’t know what to think of him at the moment.

For wrestlers to receive a push they must have opponents to beat, it’s as simple as that. The point I’m trying to make is that currently the WWE just don’t have these people, and contradictions occur on more than a weekly basis.

When the WWE fired all of their lower ranked wrestlers they erased a majority of the key part of their locker room, the jobbers. Nearly all of the wrestlers fired recently fall into this bracket, which leaves the wrestlers that are supposedly receiving pushes to fight amongst themselves on the weekly shows, which depreciates their value as a wrestler.

WWE in my opinion have tried to counteract the loss of wrestlers like this by giving more and more people pushes, which I think is only making things worse.

Guys like Randy Orton and Jeff Hardy aren’t going to suffer, but a wrestler like Rey Mysterio who is not a small name in the business has found himself falling short of any kind of form, and not really going anywhere.

I think there may be respite when people like the Undertaker and HBK retire, but everyone currently who enters the WWE receives a push like Vladimir Kozlov’s, or R-Truth’s, where they are supposed to be ascending the ranks but they are going nowhere.

Do you think there are too many people in the WWE receiving a push?