Thought of the Day: Why the Titles Need to Be Unified
Haven’t done one of these in awhile but it’s the biggest story in wrestling so it needs something said.On Smackdown, Cena says that 99% of wrestlers in WWE history have never been a world champion. That’s not too far from the truth.
On the other hand, if you look at the active roster (I used the one on Wikipedia, which includes names like Ezekiel Jackson and Evan Bourne who haven’t been around in forever as well as part timers like Undertaker, Rock and Lesnar), about 30% of the male wrestlers have held a world title. Think about that for a minute. Pick any ten WWE wrestlers and odds are that three of them have been a world champion.
If that doesn’t sum up why the titles should be unified, nothing will.
Khali as champ could have been pretty damn good. Who cares if he’s not a great wrestler, when you are that big you can go a long, long way doing very little. Just being a monster makes him believable.
Khali was great as a monster. He’s damaged goods now though and it’s killed his chances.
Watch Summerslam 08 to see how he can be used properly. It’s good stuff.
Exactly this. He was every bit as good, if not better, than Big Show ever was in the same role.
There really is. Its not as big as the WCW versio and there’s just something off about it.
The original WCW Title didn’t have a border around it. That belt was damaged (top was bent) and around the end of WCW there was a replacement made. That title had a border around it and was used as the WHC model.
Never noticed a difference really other than the WWE logo placed at the top, and slightly smaller. The WCW version was always too big.
I’ve been wondering: if they go ahead and do unify the titles, what belt are they gonna use? IMO, their version of the big gold World Title belt suck and even though its new, the WWE belt isn’t much better.
Do they dust off the kick ass belt given to Triple H in 2002, make a new one, or just use the belt that the winner came into the match with?
There’s no way they debut a belt in January or February and retire it nine months later.
WWE’s version of the big gold belt sucks? Is there a difference…?
Seeing Ziggler and Swagger in the ring during that ceremony is all the reasoning you need.
Khali too.
If used properly Khali is absolutely world champion material.
What is the Right way to use Khali?
As the evil giant. Simple.
They did that it didn’t work. The guy is practically immobile. I’m not saying he should be fired, but he just isn’t going to work as a main event guy. Khali is fine as a job guy.
Never thought it like that. Its always been obvious that 2 world titles oversaturated the market as it were in WWE but 30%? That is a lot of world champions and probably 20%-25% of those guys should have never been champ in the 1st place. Having 1 title should take care of that issue and it points to the title being almost exclusively held by top stars in the company which I think will help more than anything else.
Nice research KB, it makes your point perfectly.