WZ Mailbag Returns: How To Fix The Mid Card Storylines, Who Else Can Wyatt Family Face, NXT Before Raw?

December 2, 2015

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Welcome to the new(ish) installment of Wrestlezone Mailbag. You can send all of your questions to @JoshIsenberg4 every week to be featured on the website with answers for some of the burning questions in WWE.

@JoshIsenberg4 Could the mid-card era be salvaged with solid storylines/better matches or is a new superstar the only hope? #WZMailbag

— Lewis Dobie (@LewtheLegend) December 1, 2015

I think WWE has one of the deepest rosters in many years because of the excellent “wrestlers” they have. There is where the problem starts. Some of the best mid-card champions were guys who were better characters than wrestlers. Although I love guys like Dolph Ziggler, Tyler Breeze and King Barrett, they are all very simplistic characters. There is nothing unique about their persona that sticks on to make more intriguing storylines. You also limit your character development when all of these guys are thrown into a pool of mediocrity, a pool of .500 win percentage. When you lose as many as you win, how can characters really stick out? Maybe, this is another reason why there are not MAIN EVENT talent each week being built from scratch. Fans see these guys lose too often.

I do think new talent COULD help, but if they are booked a certain way. Who? Finn Balor could have great success in this division. Apollo Crews could have success. Will the storylines be better? With Finn, yes. Apollo? No. Creativity is not developing where it needs to right now.

Josh controls most of the creative writing and ideas for the show on a weekly basis, as well as an on-air talent.

Aside from working with WrestleZone, Isenberg began his career in Broadcast Journalism interning at ESPN and worked with CBS Radio for three years. He has also had the opportunity to interview some of the best athletes and performers alive, including Andrew McCutchen, Ben Roethlisberger, Chris Jericho, Billy Gunn, Karl Anderson, Matt Hardy, Steven Strasburg and others.

Currently, Josh Isenberg works for Major League Baseball in their Advanced Media Productions. He grew up in Pittsburgh and went to Point Park University, which is where Chair Shot Reality is filmed each week.

His life outside of his obsession with wrestling include being a savant for Seinfeld, NFL, NBA, MLB and many television shows. He also has an undying love for musicals, which includes many shows he was a part of in high school. Some of his favorite wrestling moments can be linked to such superstars as Edge, The Rock, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels and The Great Khali.