I don't think it matters whether or not they unify the belts, would love to see it back. A cruiserweight division would kick ass. Would rather them all be stuck in a Cruiserweight division than bumping their heads against the ceilings of midcard/superstars hell.
Didn't see the old WCW Cruiserweight division, can someone fill me in to how that it was so limiting/damaging to the wrestlers?
It didn't, but WCW had one of the strongest rosters in history in '97 and especially '98 and there was really no room for the cruiserweights except mostly in their own weight division.
I don't find this true today. How many cruiserweights are there to really comprise of a strong division? Kidd? Cara? Gabriel? Maybe drop Kofi down to that division?
The division has never been that over in the WWE that I recall. I remember the Ultimo Dragon being over in WCW but when he came to the WWE in 2004, he got little reaction and no one cared about him and he was gone in no time.
IMO, the best way to handle the cruiserweights is to spread them across the show. They can still have great, fast-paced matches with one another on Raw sporadically (you need some type of matches to fill those three hours) and they can even still have feuds with one another that don't revolve around the CW Title (see Billy Kidman/Paul London from '04, for example... it was a better feud than any of the ones that revolved around the championship that year and probably the previous few years before that) but you can also book them in things above just the limited weight division intended for smaller wrestlers.