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I pretty much agree with you on Victoria, Mr. Pierre. I am one of the biggest supporters of the cruiserweights on here, but the WWE just didn't know how to have the belt hanging around without treating their guys like jobbers. Granted, there was the occasional high point of the division, but the guys are much better off without the belt to anchor them on the under-card.
Since the belt has been gone, Jamie Noble has actually gotten a pretty decent push as a mid-carder on SmackDown!. He's a highlight on the show. When the CW Title was around, he was jobbing to fucking Hornswoggle. Now he's beating Palumbo, and actually got into the Rumble.
Jimmy Wang Yang & Shannon Moore have also been made into a pretty decent tag team. They do seem a little mismatched, but they've been the highlights of ECW programming for the last few weeks. They were pretty much left off the cards as cruiserweights.
And Chavo was the second-to-last Cruiserweight Champion, but without the title to weigh him down, he's been involved in the main events of both SmackDown! and ECW. To be honest, I think the belt does more harm than good, because it beckons smaller guys to it, and the WWE treat the belt badly, hence the smaller guys get treated badly.
In reality, the Cruiserweight Title should be second only to the World Title in terms of importantance to a cruiserweight wrestler. I mean, the US Title is prestigious as all hell (if you take the history and look at how well MVP has been booked), but being the US Champion means you're one of the best. Being the Cruiserweight Champion means you're the best guy able to compete for that belt. If you're Cruiserweight Champion, and there is a cruiserweight holding the World Heavyweight Championship (like was the case with Rey Mysterio and Gregory Helms in 2006), the Cruiserweight Champion should get a shot at the World Heavyweight Title, and vice versa.
The WWE never really committed that far to the championship.
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