In a new video posted on his YouTube channel, Maven addressed a number of problems he believes WWE has in today’s product, including a lack of consistent house shows:
The current talent is wrestling as much in a month now as we would wrestle in one week. Sometimes even less. The young me would have loved that schedule. But I also recognize now that you only get better by doing something repeatedly over and over. You flat out don’t get better as a wrestler by not wrestling. By limiting house shows, it’s not making the guys in the ring work any better.
The former WWE Hardcore Champion cites the Saturday Night’s Main Event match between CM Punk and Jey Uso from November 1, 2025 as an example, examining how the lack of practice through live events may have impacted it:
I immediately think back to the match that CM Punk and Jey Uso had. Two guys who I believe one day will be in the Hall of Fame and will have earned it. Two guys who I know can wrestle circles around me. Two guys who are at the top of their games. On a recent episode of Saturday Night’s Main Event, they put a match out that both guys in their heart of hearts probably weren’t happy with. They looked sluggish. Their timing was off. They lacked any aggression and they looked like they were still in the feeling out process of working one another.
The feeling out process we would do away with after one or two nights of house shows. When you work somebody three or maybe four times in one week, you get to figure out what works, what doesn’t work. You get to remove the stuff that doesn’t look and feel as crisp as it should. You understand exactly how your opponent moves.
How is this important? Because if someone always charges and takes a bump or delivers a clothesline and veers off a little bit to the right or left, you start recognizing that. You can then change your body and adapt. You’re not feeling this out on television.
Source: Fightful