Kurt Angle believes WWE needs to create new stars before they begin losing viewers.
While WWE have been never more successful than recently, there is no doubt that there are issues with the product. One major complaint from fans is WWE’s inability to create new stars in the company, choosing to keep the established stars they do have in favor of pushing new talent.
Kurt Angle has now weighed in on the end of WrestleMania 39 as he said on the most recent episode of his podcast that he believes Roman Reigns should have put over Cody Rhodes in the main event of the show.
“I’m not going to beat up on Roman Reigns because he is the man he deserves to be,” said Kurt. “We’re in a time now where if you’re a champion for three years, that’s a little long. It’s just too long. Because we’re not in territories anymore. When you were in territories, you weren’t on TV every week. So fans had to come to see you at the arenas, and you’d only be in that city one day a week. So they only saw wrestling one day a week back then when they were champion for six, eight years. Now Roman Reigns has gone on; it looks like he’s gonna have to hold the title for another few years. The thing is, he’s on TV every week, sometimes twice a week, and then you know, a pay-per-view every month. It’s just a lot. I don’t believe the ratings are gonna go down, but I do believe some people are going to lose interest because they’re not making other wrestlers. You know, Roman has an opportunity to make a wrestler, he could have made Cody into a megastar, which Cody is already a star, but he would have been a mega-star if he won at WrestleMania. That’s just my opinion.”
Kurt Angle
Currently, there are no major pushes obvious to many fans, as Cody Rhodes losing at WrestleMania was seen as WWE’s big chance at this time to establish Cody as a superstar.
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