Do The WWE's Main Superstars Fight Each Other Too Often?

Thinking back over the past few Raw and SmackDown episodes, I began noticing a trend in the WWE which may be affecting the shows and pay per views that they may not have fully considered.

The WWE always want to make their weekly shows the best they can, for both the attending crowd and the worldwide audience, but in my opinion they are pitting the big stars against each other far too often.

Due to my age I have a somewhat limited wrestling knowledge, but what I have picked up is that the bigger stars did not used to face off on a regular basis. Just over a decade ago, the larger names in the business would wrestle against jobbers or mid-carders unless it was a big event.

I think I can strengthen my point using the example of Jeff Hardy, who at the time of his WWE debut was 16, fighting Razor Ramon in 1994. This not only gave an opportunity to an unknown wrestler, but gave Razor exposure without having to pit him against another big name, and building anticipation for these bigger clashes.

The WWE just can’t seem to get us excited about some matches anymore, and I think this point is a strongly influencing factor. Just this Friday we saw Jeff Hardy against Edge, which if given proper build up could headline a pay per view event. But as we see this kind of thing so often now, there is no element of adventure left in the WWE’s choice of rivalries.

Even when they do get a decent chance at producing a fresh rivalry they can’t seem to get it right, due in part by my opinion to the fact there are so many pay-per-views at the moment. This leads to really short build up to bigger matches that could deserve longer hype and anticipation.

Take for example John Cena vs. Batista at SummerSlam, a meeting of wrestlers that according to the WWE had never happened before (I say “according to the WWE” because they seem to have come out with some questionable facts recently).

As a match I thought it was pretty good, but for some reason I just didn’t buy the hype. Maybe it was just me, but I felt like they could have taken a little bit more time and handled it better.

One other thing that has really begun to bug me is the constant stream of tag team matches involving the feuding stars. Whenever two guys get into a rivalry they always seem to be involved in dubious tag team match ups with guys who don’t seem to have anything better to do, like Cryme Tyme or The Great Khali.

This may be good build up for the matches in some peoples’ opinion, and agreeably it is better than the gross amounts of bad mouthing and promo cutting that we seem to be getting lately. But it just takes something special away from that first encounter of the two wrestlers. You don’t, for example, see boxers have a little match before the big fight for this very reason.

With the ever decreasing roster sizes as well, the problem will only get worse. I have always been an advocate of keeping as many wrestlers in the business as possible, and this point only adds to the mountain of reasons the WWE need more wrestlers to improve their product.

Do you agree that WWE’s big superstars fight amongst each other far too often?