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That's 25 top level guys and they can't figure out how to keep a 3 hour show that starts off with 20 of talking fresh?>
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3 hours every week (plus Smackdown and PPVs) is way too much to stay fresh. Even when you play TEW you can see how quickly things get repetitive unless you're always bringing in new talent.
How many guys can say, Dean Ambrose really feud with that he hasn't already? Most are way below him. With less 50/50 booking, even more guys would be way below him, because more of the Wyatt/Ryback types would be losing 1-sided feuds. And those 1-sided feuds make it harder to suddenly "promote" guys into an Ambrose feud.
Before the static roster era, promoters would bring in new guys specifically to feud with guys they had, to keep things fresh. When it's a static roster, everything has to be recycled. It's one weird example of how there was seemingly more ADD in pro wrestling years ago, where promoters were constantly worried about guys overstaying their welcome. Now, a guy like Ziggler can be on the roster almost 10 years, and wrestle literally hundreds of TV/PPV matches, against mostly the same guys, over and over again. Ideally, IMO, he would have gone away for a few years in there so he could come back more fresh. Like get rid of a guy with a losing record, and bring in Ziggler who would win a bunch at first, and then you have the illusion that the main roster guys win more than they lose, when in reality, with a static roster, the overall record has to be .500.