Put it this way, if Henry is still working by 2016, he's kidding himself.
He's kidding himself!!
As for the Vaudevillains, your Los Matadores comparison was pretty apt, SGL. For me, they're a golden example of a minor league act failing to translate on the bigger stage. It's easier to get over in an environment like NXT where you're not being exposed every single week and have the opportunity to grow as characters. A three hour show like Raw isn't really conducive for those sorts of characters and unfortunately by the time they made it onto SmackDown they were DOA. If it was up to me, I would have broken them up and given them a new direction to see how they would go but that wasn't the WWE's mind-set. Instead they were both stuck in this dead-end tag team on a roster where tag team wrestling is dying a death. Even a team like American Alpha who were considered the biggest stars coming out of NXT have become irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
I think the more recent batch of Nakamura, Dillinger and The Revival will have an easier time, although I'm worried about Joe. If it was my call, I'd get him off Raw pronto and as far away from HHH as I could. Joe needs to stand on his own two feet and booking him like HHH's enforcer (who is kind of shit at his job if Mania is anything to go by) isn't going to allow him to be all he can be.
Otherwise I've got to say the WWE has been pretty enjoyable as of late. My only complaint in regards to Mania is that it went for too long, otherwise it was a strong spectacle and between TakeOver, Raw & SmackDown there was plenty to get excited about.
My only complaint is that the presentation of the show is so placid. Rollins/Balor vs Joe/Owens should have been this dream match and by the time it came around it felt like an after thought.
