#3 Having 'chosen ones'
As a businessman, Vince is shrewd and maximises his assets' potential, but when that business mentality gets mixed in with booking philosophy, it gets complicated.
Vince's mindset when it comes to booking philosophy seems to be 'there can only be one or two TOP guys' on the roster at one time. Others are not allowed to prosper besdies his guys. If you get yourself over it doesn't count, look at guys like; Ryback, RVD, Sandow etc, they will only accept it when they're forced to, like they were with Daniel Bryan.
Ryback who recently found himself walking away from a new WWE contract gave an interview, where he implied that the company repeatedly restricted his merchandise production and he could not understand why the company wouldn't want all the wrestlers to be over and making money.
Rumours have always been afloat that if you're not one of the WWE's 'chosen ones’, they don't want you to do better than them.
According to former wrestler Mister Saint Laurent, the WWE merchandise department started to under-ship CM Punk's merchandise as soon as he began to outsell John Cena, in order to have Cena remain as the no.1 seller in terms of units shipped. The WWE also refused to give Punk a second t-shirt design whilst giving Cena several designs.
If this is true, then Vince has missed out on millions of dollars by not utilising his whole roster.
Teddy Long snaps when Swerve Strickland's race is brought up HERE
