Here we had a setup with potential despite the lack of top tier WCW stars. This all took place right after Wrestlemania and they had a chance to seriously refresh the product but what happened?

When Vince bought WCW right before Mania, what did he do?

He inserted Shane front and center.

When they added ECW as a faction, what did they do?
Oh yeah… put Stephanie front and center.

How’d that whole thing work out? Because outside of Kurt Angle’s milk truck most of that story was trash…..due in great part to….. lazy writing, poor storytelling, and more importantly, putting much of that spotlight on the McMahons instead of the talent.

Sounds an awful lot like what we have today. New talent (I’d say much better talent right now) in the post Mania season with the opportunity to seriously refresh the product, yet most of what we get is MOAR McMahon Mania.

I’m perfectly open to being shown all the cool new, fresh, and interesting things they’re doing because this looks like a hell of a rerun.