#3 Guests and Actors must look better than the wrestlers
Wrestlers, both male and female, are supposed to be very tough people.
After all, you can’t spend almost an entire calendar year performing such painful moves, training so hard and working through severe pain without being very tough. So why are so many wrestlers put into positions where celebrities and guests get the upper hand over them?
It isn’t logical for a professional wrestler to be outdone by someone with little-to-no experience in the business. Yet for some reason, WWE has booked many wrestlers to have done so. Big Show was defeated by Floyd Mayweather, despite being almost 2 full feet taller and outweighing him 3-to-1.
Jersey Shore’s Snooki, a ridiculously inexperienced person, managed to actually hurt trained wrestler Michelle McCool with a handful of moves. Chavo Guerrero, bless his soul, was made to look horribly weak by taking a karate chop from Bob Barker, of all people.
While slapstick humour and cheesiness do have their place in wrestling, it doesn’t help when it makes someone look like a fool. By having these untrained non-wrestlers look better than the trained wrestlers, it suggests that anyone can become a wrestler, and no one should take wrestling seriously because these people look like fools.
Recently, several guest hosts came to WWE programming and got the better of established top wrestlers in verbal exchanges.
Shouldn’t the wrestlers be the ones at the top, intimidating people that dare question what they do? You’d think WWE would try and protect their assets (read: their talent) by booking segments that show non-wrestlers as being afraid of them.
But if WWE constantly creates segments where wrestlers are made to look like chumps so that some random celebrity can say that they beat a wrestler, the company’s reputation will be unable to improve.
