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Originally Posted by Noid
I was against the idea of scrapping the Cruiserweight Title, but I am not a fan of bringing it back. Looking at things realistically, the WWE will just book the division poorly. A guy like Evan Bourne looks infinitely better challenging for the ECW Title than being Cruiserweight Champion.
Plus, so many of the main eventers in the WWE are cruiserweights, anyway. Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Christian and Jeff Hardy are all former Cruiserweight or Light Heavyweight Champions. John Morrison and Chavo Guerrero are former ECW Champions, and they are cruiserweights. JBL was the last guy to mention the weight limit for the Cruiserweight Title, and he suggested it was 225lbs. That puts CM Punk and Shawn Michaels under the banner, as well.
So tell me: Why should a guy challenge for the Cruiserweight Title? I mean, seriously. Why do some guys go for the Cruiserweight Title, while other men who are technically cruiserweights, don't challenge for it. It'd be like a female worker deciding she doesn't want to be the WWE Women's Champion anymore, and chasing anything else. The Women's Title should be it for female wrestlers, and the Cruiserweight Title should be it for cruiserweights.
That means you'd have to change booking considerably, and convince someone like Shawn Michaels that being the Cruiserweight Champion is a good idea for him.
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I had heard Matt Hardy once say that he was going to get to
<220 lbs. because
that was the weight limit for being accepted as a Cruiserweight, but maybe that happened before JBL's "decree" or whatever.