The Midcard Title Unification Rumor

[Alastor]

Obviously you can't compare wrestling to REAL undercards when star power is usually based on quantifiable skill in those instances. Stars in the wrestling business are determined by people who sit at a table.

As far as the writers not being lazy, I would have to disagree. It's their job. No excuse for them to only put effort into Raw and then Smackdown is basically a Raw replay and Main Event and Superstars are randomly slapped together matches with no real purpose.

ESPECIALLY since a few years ago it wasn't the case, specifically during the late 90's/early 2000's.

All the feuds you listed occupy about 14-18 characters/roster members. Is that really an acceptable ratio when you have 40-50 people on the roster and 7 hours of television time to fill? Not to mention virtually unlimited time with the Network to have everyone doing something?

How hard is it to have upper midcard/main event feuds on RAW and Midcard/Upper midcard feuds on Smackdown? I'm not even asking for Yoshi fucking Tatsu to be a focal point, but there's no reason why a funny dude like Ryback or a guy who we've rarely seen put in position to show real emotion like Kofi should just be in pointless matches each week.

I can kinda understand the argument of only featuring higher card talent on Raw/SD (even though that over saturation is what makes people sour on a guy but whatever), but what is so important going on on Main Event or Superstars that a Kofi or Ryback or Big E can't be given a story?

Stars are what entice people to fork out money. Promotions can build stars from the undercard but is there really any different if the undercard feud over a throwaway title or not?

I don't know if you noticed or not, 99 and early 00's are 10-15 years ago. Hardly 'just years ago'. Just years ago WWE gave major pushes to green wrestlers like Sheamus (get it? Irish lulz) and Wade Barrett.

Stop being a mark for on air talent and realize writing for 7 hours of television every week isn't as easy as it sounds. Lets say 51 weeks of 7 hours = 357 and add in plan Bs and Cs for injuries/suspensions/CM Punk (lol). It is basically like writing an episode on the fly for consecutive weeks. Sounds easy since wrestling is basically just a few guys beating the hell out of each other but not really when everybody 'deserves' a 'push' according to the IWC.

 

[Good Golly It's Ollie]

In addition to what Alastor said I think it's worth noting that titles don't always mean very much. I mean, in wrestling, legacy is the character.

You can't make everyone the top guy; some people have to lose for others to win. Wrestling is capitalism

But on the flipside, will casuals care when John Cena tosses aside Ric Flair's World Title record? No, they'll notice his new t-shirt and buy it backstage after the show.

No one in 15 years will say "hey Kofi Kingston held the midcard title a bunch of times", they will say, "remember that Royal Rumble spot Kofi did" or such like.

So yeah it'd be great if there were 5 belts and regimented divisions and people stayed in those divisions like in the Smackdown 2 video game. But actual WWE doesn't work like that really. What you leave behind is the legacy, the character, the promos. Get past a certain point on the card and they've all held the US title.