Triple H pushing for relevant midcard belts

[Cloud]

Barrett would have worked if he hadn't have gotten injured! But yeah the belts need throwing on reliable ppl for a bit as they need to build up. Barrett is a serious IC champion imo and could be huge they and he need a run of good luck.But if they build the belt which they failed to do whilst he was out injured then what is he coming back to total garbage. He was building some momentum behind the IC and still can he is a quality IC champ and makes the mid card an interest as he can talk!

 

[edge4ever]

At the height of relevancy for these two titles, they were used to push midcarders up to a main event status. In the early days of the belt Pedro Morales was the only former WWWF/WWF/WWE world champion to hold the belt, which he dropped in 1981. After that, a former WWE champion did not hold the IC belt after his initial world title reign until Triple H in 2001. On the reverse, 15 IC champs during that period would go on to win the WWE Championship.

My point being, that this belt is meant to prepare a wrestler for a future main event push. That was how it was utiltized in the past and it worked well. So I wholeheartedly agree. Daniel Bryan doesn't gain anything from being the IC champ. John Cena only gains defeating Rusev by winning the US Title, he gets pretty much nothing else for it. WWE should put the belt on guys like Ambrose and then give them a good title reign instead of having them lose tons of non title matches. That will help the company build new starts and a sustainable future, which putting these belts on Cena and Bryan will not.

you had me at, "My point being, that this belt is meant to prepare a wrestler for a future main event push. That was how it was utiltized in the past and it worked well. So I wholeheartedly agree. Daniel Bryan doesn't gain anything from being the IC champ. John Cena only gains defeating Rusev by winning the US Title, he gets pretty much nothing else for it. WWE should put the belt on guys like Ambrose and then give them a good title reign instead of having them lose tons of non title matches."

 

[Trip in the Head]

You guys do realize Ambrose already held the US title himself for a very long time right? (351 days to be exact, longest in WWE history) Just saying he is not a good example for this IMO is all.

 

[edge4ever]

You guys do realize Ambrose already held the US title himself for a very long time right? (351 days to be exact, longest in WWE history) Just saying he is not a good example for this IMO is all.

Yes he is. The WWE messed that up. They had the guy in no storylines for that title. He barely defended it. And he was too involved with the shield. Waste of a reign. Totally WWE's fault. Ambrose could've brought that title back to life then.

 

[The GOAT]

Yeeaaaah... I just can't see Brock retaining the championship at Wrestlemania. It'd be an almost win-win scenario if he did since it would mean they wouldn't be wasting the rub of ending Brock's reign of dominance on Roman (I'm not as down on him beating Brock as much as others are, but I've never quite seen a babyface this cold be appointed such a big push), and by proxy it means the midcard titles will get spotlighted more by getting to headline a few PPVs as well, but for a plethora of obvious reasons that I can't be arsed typing out, I don't see it happening. Reigns is beating Lesnar, I'd bet my life on it.

That said, if Brock did retain, they could easily have Bryan or Cena headline a few PPVs and carry things for awhile in-between Lesnar's rare appearances and title defenses (that's assuming Bryan even wins the Intercontinental Title, which I don't take as being as much of a given as others do.) According to the European tour that's been booked for after Mania, Cena vs Rusev for the United States Championship is headlining the A-Crew's side of things, so the big third and final rubber match between them could easily headline the Extreme Rules PPV in April. According to the rating breakdowns for Raw these past couple of weeks, it seems the Cena/Rusev rivalry has captured the people's interest more than any other feud has anyway.

 

[C.M. Shaddix]

Actually if you think about it that is a good idea, but I would still like to see Rollins with the belt at the end of the night. Lesnar's reign has been on for far too long. BUT if Cena and Bryan walk out with those titles they would mean more than they are, but WWE will have to keep that up with the changes and make the storylines interesting.

 

[Trip in the Head]

Plus I think they usually tend to not have all the titles be on one side of the kayfabe fence at the same time (tag titles not included). Not always though.