Boy oh boy, the top champion of the company. This is the championship that’s supposed to represent the company. The wrestler who holds this title is THE man in the wrestling world and the WWE Universe as a whole. At the moment, though, it’s essentially held by a guy who didn’t even rank among our top 100 wrestlers of 2014 on the Cewsh Reviews Top 100. Why didn’t he rank, you may be asking, and the answer is simple: he simply didn’t wrestle enough matches. Of Lesnar’s 2014 matches, the only truly enjoyable one was the match in which he won the championship, almost 5 months ago. This is a damn shame. Our WWE Champion should be someone who actively works to represent the brand and stands tall as a leader amongst his peers. Unfortunately, what we have, is a champion who is largely absent and noticeable gap at the top of the WWE main event structure.
WWE Intercontinental Championship:
Current Champion: Bad News Barrett
In direct opposition to the WWE Championship, the main issue with the intercontinental championship is that the champion wrestles too often, often on the losing end of the match. This title has changed hands at an alarming rate, with no champions getting over. The formula that WWE keeps repeating with the IC title is as follows:
– Title is won in some kind of “shock/twist” moment
– The champion loses every non-title match
– Champion loses the title to someone in a “shock/twist” moment
Rinse and repeat. Whether it was Dolph Ziggler, the Miz, Luke Harper or Bad new Barrett, this title has been nothing, but a curse to the person holding it.
What I would do with the championship: STOP. MAKING. THE. CHAMPION. LOSE. Easy as that. This title should be the second-most prestigious title in the company and in a year in which the WWE Championship has been largely absent (Bryan’s injury, Brock’s reign) we needed a solid Intercontinental champion. Unfortunately, what we got was just a prop that bounced around from person to person, helping absolutely no one.
WWE United States Championship:
Current Champion: Rusev
The United States championship was once a prestigious championship in the National Wrestling Alliance. If you weren’t NWA Champion, you were the US Champion. WWE 2015 isn’t the NWA. In the WWE, the United States championship is the definition of a prop. Can you remember the last significant feud for the championship? Can you? I can. Dolph Ziggler vs Zack Ryder…in 2011. Even that feud was more about getting internet sensation Zack Ryder over than it was about the actual championship. In the time since that feud, this title has been a prop for some “evil” heel to just hold onto for a really long. Whether it was Cesaro’s 239-day reign, Ambrose’s 351-day reign, or Rusev’s current reign which conceivably won’t be ended anytime soon, this title is just enough of a non-factor that no one misses it when it’s stuck on someone. Instead of the wrestler’s getting the title over, the title is used as a prop by young heels as something to just hold onto.
What I would do with the championship: Get rid of it. You don’t need two mid-card championships, especially when neither is booked particularly well. I would replace the United States prop with a divisional title like a Cruiserweight championship, Hardcore championship, or even a god-dang TV title. There’s just no use for the United States championship anymore, so why not make a title for the lower card guys?
The WWE Tag Team championship has had some…interesting booking over the last 18 months. First, the Shield lost the tag titles in a well-built RAW main event match to the Rhodes brothers. Following a short reign, the Rhodes lost the titles to the New Age Outlaws in an incredibly disappointing moment of sadness for the tag division. Thankfully, the Outlaws lost the titles in a hot moment to the Usos, who had a hell of a first run with the belts. After the Usos lost the belts back to the Rhodes, the brothers dust had a lackluster run before passing the belts off to comedy act Miz and Mizdow. Now, the Usos have once again regained the titles, but the division is a complete mess. The only competition to the Usos are the Dust brothers, whose act is growing weary on the fans. There’s also Miz & Mizdow, but their run in the tag division can’t go on for much longer, as their angle needs to head a different way. While the tag titles are around the waists of a great, young babyface tag team, unless they get some strong heels to feud with, these belts could end up going the way of the US Championship.
What I would do with the championship: The tag division needs a shot in the arm something fierce. We’ve had The Ascension called up and now Tyson Kidd and Cesaro have formed a tag team, but a bunch of random teams does not make a division. We need weekly interaction between the teams. Not 2 teams feuding at a time, but every team needs to interact and fight for the titles. Tag team wrestling is always most exciting when there are tons of competitors vying for the titles (look at New Japan’s Jr tag division) ad the WWE needs to just let these guys off the leash.
WWE Divas Championship
Current Champion: Nikki Bella
Well, if we’re talking about divisions that are a mess, then holy Jesus have we hit the motherload with the WWE divas division. This title had a good start to 2014 around the waist of AJ Lee and looked to be in good hands once Lee left her on sabbatical as it fell right into the lap of internet darling Paige. What happened after that is where the mess all started. This belt bounced back and forth all over the damn place, while making absolutely no one in the division look credible. Every diva tapped or got pinned by every other diva. Every woman in the division is defined by either being on Total Divas or having absolutely no character. The divas are interchangeable pieces who trade the title according to whoever the boss feels like will look best with title that month.
What I would do with the championship: MAKE THE WOMEN LOOK CREDIBLE. It’s not hard. It’s not difficult. It’s not rocket science. Stop making all of your female wrestlers look weak against one another or look like idiots on your reality shows. Make your fans respect the women just as would the men and for groot sake, stop changing the title in “schock/twist” moments.
Overall thoughts: The current state of the championships in WWE is just a mess. WWE needs to stop booking their champions to be losers and their titles to be worthless.
Analysis concluded.
