I am not bought over by a crusierweight division or title so to speak, but I have been contemplating and decided a-nother title or pair of titles for brands would be a good thing to have. See right now you have a load of guys who are generally considered mid-card and those main-eventers, but as we constantly witness, a lot of the time they simply inter-compete.
For example Sheamus. He's been working the mid-card scene for a while but could at any moment and without hesitation just jump up to main eventing again because he has the credentials. Point is that the boundaries are not well defined.
Now say what you will about TNA but by having more titles you can categorize people much more distinctively which sounds bad but trust me, makes sense. See you have the Bucks, the Kazarians which are very clearly X-division meaning they posses a certain quality to their game which puts them in that category. You have people like Rob Terry, Gunner, Tommy Dreamer all very much TV title guys. And Anderson, Sting, RVD, AJ, Angle all part of the world champion band. And this allows you to quantify very well a guys merits. The eventual conundrum is what to do to remove them from that category if they prove themselves to be of more worth. Well WWE has the immediate advantage of not being TNA (obviously), particularly, though, for the fact that they don't have staff which deliberately limit the progress of the smaller, leaner guy despite however much potential they may have. For example they exploited such talent from guys like Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit and others after WCW had been busy making them roll around in the same muck for far too long.
So yeah, clearly defined boundaries. What was I saying? Right so how to move them out of these boundaries, because defined boundaries are harder to break through.... plexiglass like if you will. Look, far more easy than it sounds. You just push the guy to compete ad have a programme with a more established guy. The established guy isn't going to drop down and be looked at as an X-division guy for example, the guy he's working with will just be elevated up. It does mean the pushes have to be succinct and well executed though, but that just means you have a more rigorous selection programme than just choosing any guy, you have to have a good idea of what you want him to achieve and how likely he will achieve it.
Right so where are we now? Belts. Yes. So then you have these belts, one for each brand and you have guys who are very obviously that division of guy. All of a sudden you have the lower division guys, mid-card guys and main eventers which are all distinguishable from each other. You don't have any of this guy ruling the wrestling world one day, to the next coveting the IC title, to then being the WWE title. It's simply not believable. You don't have someone like the Big Show just falling back and being satisfied with being the tag team champs, they hang around the top all the time, not necessarily being contenders but always knocking on the door if they heed the call. In short you have guys who come in as lowly considered guys, they work up to mid card and then main event provided they have the skills to do so.
And that doesn't mean you can't have any of these Del Rio guys who's feet never quite dip into the shallow water of the mid-card. You can still mega-push people if you know it'll work, it's just 90% of the time the guy will come up jobbing, contending, winning and dominating, a.k.a the HBK way, and it'll make them look very strong and worthy in the process.
So yeah. WWE '........' division titles. Make it happen. I've made the case. Remember all about clearly defined boundaries enforcing realism.
