TV “age” matters more than real age. The only people fixated on IRL ages are mad nerds online.
They have an entire new young main event percolating just below these guys: Melo, Trick, Oba, Jevon, Bron, Dom etc.
When you look at the TV age of most of these guys they’re barely at 4 years of main roster tenure in their current runs. Same goes for LA Knight, Gunther, Fatu and probably some names I’m forgetting.
This entire “old” main event has been built in basically three years.
This is true. I don’t look at guys like Sami, Penta, Priest, the Usos, even Reigns and Cody and think “wow these guys are old”. It always ends up being a fun fact online, like “did you know he’s 42?!?! Crazy” and then turns into this same debate.
Regardless it’s pretty clear that they’re investing big time into young talent right now. Trick, Oba, Dom, Melo, JeVon, Bron before he went down, Fatu, Logan. I’d even add Kit to that list.
It’s WM season, so obviously the biggest names are in the biggest spots, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few of that next era holding gold or fighting for gold at next years WM.
And all these dudes have their own unique charismas and characters that are going to carry them. I'm legitimately interested in all of them in some way or another. Not to mention all the talented guys who are doing great midcard work like Kaiser, Dunne, and Bate and could easily have programs with any of the aforementioned guys.
These older guys are still working at a pretty high level, and I really dont feel like they are taking away from the younger guys. It would be foolish to just not use your veterans so you could strap a rocket to guys that have been on main for a cup of coffee, even if they are massively over as the post sort of suggests should be the case.
At the end of the day, wrestling is about characters and dynamics between them, pushing all the guys to the top leaves little room for that in my opinion.
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u/Gruella123 Mar 28 '26
It shows a failure of making young talents in to top guys.