Thread: Rumoured Direction Of The Mid-Card Titles
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Old 03-19-2015, 08:55 AM   #26
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I like the idea in theory. Basically echo the sentiments of CSL here for me. Jim Ross made a good point doing commentary for New Japan's WrestleKingdom this year: "Why would you want a title to be less prestigious than another?" Or something along those lines.

Daniel Bryan could win the IC Title and people could care about it more than the World Title. Cena could win the US Title for a fourth time and replica sales might skyrocket. You can do a segment where Cena and Bryan stand in the ring and shake each other's hand and declare they will be the best champions ever and represent their respective titles with honor and respect and what have you.

Something about it just doesn't seem right though...

I don't think Dean Ambrose should have lost the US Title when he did. The company could have made Ambrose defend the title more regularly and he could have cracked a year as champ. A slanted victory for Orton or even Batista would have made sense at this point in time. But they didn't do that -- they hot-shotted the title onto Sheamus -- and it was basically just there to keep him afloat until Rusev got it.

I feel like the current US Champion should be Jack Swagger. His character loves America and would love to be the US Champion. His hatred of Rusev should have pushed him towards the title more. I think as a former World Heavyweight and ECW Champion, he would have been plenty credible enough to breathe some life into the US Title -- without a full-time main eventer stepping down to win it.

Barrett was a fine choice as the Intercontinental Champion. They probably should have gotten Chris Jericho to come in and feud with him over the title and really "make him" as this era's definitive IC Champion. Barrett could talk about how he saw the title defended in the main event of SummerSlam '92 in his home country, so it's the real World Title to him. That being said, Dean Ambrose's recent push towards it was kind of interesting, and having him win the IC Title off Barrett, defend it against Jericho, and basically hold the title until he wins Money in the Bank in his home-state, cashes it in successfully and is forced to forfeit it would have been a nice way to imply the title launches main event careers.

I like it when titles mean something, but I'm not sure if Barrett losing every match he's in as champion and the title only sometimes being mentioned sometimes during the feud the champion is in is the way to go about it.
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