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SmackDown Live ratings are currently at record lows and it now appears as if the same can be said about locker room morale. In recent months, we've learned that both The Club and The Revival are hoping to leave the company once their current contracts expire.
Some Superstars, meanwhile, have already succeeded in being granted their release (Tye Dillinger) while others are stuck (Luke Harper).
Now, Bryan Alvarez claims that the morale in the WWE locker room is worse than it's ever been and significantly worse than in the 1990s.
"All I can tell you is morale today in WWE is so bad. I’ve heard it from multiple people. I’ve heard people and they’ll say it ‘morale is bad.’ I’ll say ‘I’ve heard’ and [they’ll say] ‘no really bad.’ So like I don’t know. It’s probably been maybe the worst it’s ever been. I’m not sure. I know it was bad in the wake of the Invasion [in 2001 after WCW was sold]. I know a lot of people were unhappy then for different reasons. The Kliq made some people’s lives miserable, but not everybody’s. In 96, 97 and 98 things turned around and everybody was making a lot of money. Maybe the early 90s but it’s bad [today]."
Whether making things better for its Superstars is a priority right now is hard to say, especially when WWE has to be more concerned about fixing those ratings. The "Wild Card" rule helped to some extent but things are still bad and we don't know for sure how Vince McMahon will tackle that.
As always, stay tuned for more on this as we have it.