10 changes to expect when Vince McMahon is done with the WWE

#6 An emphasis on dynamism instead of similarity in wrestling styles

Wrestlers like Styles will become more important when Vince leaves

When a wrestler ‘graduates to the main roster’ their wrestling style undergoes a drastic change. Under Vince’s style, all wrestlers have a strong degree of uniformity in terms of their wrestling styles. All of them must follow the same match structure, they must all have a similar and easily-identifiable superstar comeback, and all of them must go through the same motions without any sort of break in match style.

This is a harmful way of booking wrestling because it treats the performers as generic cogs in a machine without any uniqueness about them. This approach is heavily favoured by Vince McMahon and his crew, who have created this environment where few wrestlers, if any, have any major creative input, especially when it comes to their match formulae.

But when Vince retires, this approach isn’t likely to change. Many others in WWE have noticed that when wrestlers have more freedom to do their kind of match, that match ends up being better. Instead of following the same restrictive rules, wrestlers will have more freedom to perform in their styles once Vince leaves WWE.

This will only benefit WWE and its fans, as there will be less of a belief that going to WWE leads to some wrestlers performing in a ‘watered-down’ version of their former selves.