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Originally Posted by Jeritron
How would it not? If there's one world title, there are more contenders and thus less repetition in the matchups. They'd have to make a strong effort.
It's speculation, but it's based in logic.
Also, with less titles the IC and US titles would be used more often, and less wrestlers would be pushed into the world divisions.
There is past experience to base this of off. Did you watch wrestling in 2002, or in any of the years prior to that?
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If there's one world title, your contenders consist of former contenders for both old titles--in other words, instead of HHH, Taker, Edge, etc going for one title and John Cena, Batista, JBL etc going for the other, all of those guys would go for one. There's less repetition in a very vague sense, I guess, since now we could watch John Cena and HHH go at it oh wait.
In fact, they could make less effort because they now have an excuse for just throwing random guys together. You can have Batista and Taker fight over the title. Brand split? Reasoning? Psh, Taker wants his shot. There's no real reason to think this would drive home the plot development.
Less wrestlers getting pushed to the world division doesn't really mean more credibility for the midcard belts. They're going to be defended once every so often (like usual), and once per PPV (like usual). It'll hurt the credibility of a show overall to not have the main belt up for grabs, but an IC title doesn't automatically become a main event belt just because the
real main event belt is on the other brand