Can the WWE recover?

He's currently running out.

Seriously, does anyone think Ric Flair or Triple H are going to live on for that much longer? Flair has been on a four-decade bender while Triple H has taken every type of illegal supplement known to man.

Sure, he'll still sucker in big kids who will shoot up anything to get on TV, but the real talent isn't there. There isn't an NWA, WCW, ECW or AWA to develop them anymore. There are no territories to do jobs at and pick up the ropes.

He can keep playing Russian roulette and pick up the roid monsters, but as far as the guys who can actually work, he isn't developing them.

 

Not necessarily. Ohio Valley Wrestling produced (or greatly refined) a good bunch of their current stars like Cena, Batista, Lashley, Nitro, Melina, Mickie James. And they've got a decent batch of wrestlers now from what I understand. Problem is, McMahon is going to push the muscleheads with little talent (Chris Masters) over the normal-looking guys with mat cred (CM Punk).

 

The following statement is really asshole-ish and not against anyone here: There are maybe 100 dead wrestlers out of maybe 300 million people just in the US. This isn't quite an epidemic. Doesn't mean their lives are worth less, but that's the pragmatic side of me rationalizing whether an entire company or industry should vanish or not.

 

In fairness, it was funny.

 

Comparing the sample size of dead wrestlers to the entire population of the U.S. is meaningless, unless all 300 million of them are employed as wrestlers. 100 dead wrestlers in an industry that might not have 200 people employed as wrestlers full-time at any given point in time is overwhelming evidence of an industry completely out of control.