Legitimate world champions in a 2 brand world

[Wishbone]

Originally Posted by Iginfest It's just used as a test run for guys who aren't at the top, while the guys at the top never go for it. Most guys who go after the WHC title now shouldn't be main eventing. It's just generally a bit shit that they have two world title belts because that now means half the roster is a former world champion.

I half agree with you here. It's pretty terrible that we can have a match at almost every show where the announcers say "These men are all former world champions in their own right", but I don't think that all the guys going for it have no business ever being a world champion. Guys like Punk, Del Rio, Sheamus and Kane all fit just fine into that world. It just seems like rather than keeping a set of world champions shuffling through the title picture WWE has taken to just throwing every tom, dick and harry they can find into it for shits and giggles.

Guys like Swagger, Bryan and Ziggler's initial title runs are what have caused the title to be meaningless. I'm not saying they shouldn't have ever held world titles. I mean Ziggler's current reign is pretty good, but calling him a former world champ for holding it for 2 minutes, especially when he wasn't really even over at the time is just stupid. Swagger holding the title now would be worth while, but when he was the "All American American" it was just disgraceful. And Bryan cashing in MITB when he was just a bland indy guy was a wasted opportunity.

If they'd waited till now, when Bryan has the fans in the palm of his hands he could easily have had an amazing moment where he overcame the odds ala that fucking scumbag Benoit.