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I started really watching around 2014. Got real tired of it after a year or so. The five hours a week was way too much for me, and the stories were already repeating pretty heavily. I tried again after the RAW/Smackdown brand split because I thought it was the perfect thing to refresh the brand, and it got better for a bit, but it started falling into the same patterns.

They shelve all the good gimmicks (like Bad News Barrett), over play the enjoyable gimmicks (like the New Day), keep using the same foreign wrestling heel that they've been relying on since their television debut (Cena vs Rusev was literally just the plot of Rocky IV strung over five or six months), they keep burying good talent in the B-list (like Ambrose), they use Brock Lesnar (who is the least charismatic wrestler I've ever seen, and literally has less moves than Roman Reigns) and they keep pushing wrestlers that clearly no one wants because ... I don't know. Maybe they hate their fans. I don't get it.

The sad part is that I actually feel really bad for Reigns. Guy doesn't have a lot of moves but he fit his role during The Shield. He gets pushed hard, which pisses off fans who would rather see Ambrose, or Rollins (though he sort of is perma-shoehorned as a cowardly villain, if you ask me), which is not entirely his fault. If anything, it's management being blindly devoted to the idea that every single front man has to be made in the Hulk Hogan, Olympic body builder type.