Lately I have been noticing that some of WWE's mid-card champions having been losing a lot of non title matches. A champion should be booked as strong as possible, and he should not lose as often as some of the current champions have been doing lately.
Take Wade Barrett for an example, he lost his IC championship to the Miz at Wrestlemania and then he won it back the next night on Raw. He went on to wrestle Santino on Smackdown the following show, but Santino has been booked as comedy-jobber for a long time, so the fact that Barrett won helped him nothing at all. But last night on Raw, Barrett faced R Truth who also has been losing a lot lately, but surprisingly enough R Truth got the win. This was a bad move by the WWE, even though if they are building R Truth to become the new IC-contender. Because when Barrett lost, he lost a lot of momentum again, and once again he was booked as a weak champion. R Truth could have beaten somebody else to gain some momentum before he faced Barrett. If WWE had booked it right, Barrett should have won against somebody else, while R Truth could have done the same thing. This would have lead them to each other, which would have made their title-match at Extreme Rules feel more real and not so rushed and bad booked. If you want to book a strong champion, he needs to win more than for example Barrett has been doing lately.
That brings us over to talk about the divas champion which is Kaitlyn. A couple of weeks ago Kaitlyn lost a non title match against Aj Lee, and last night she lost another match against The Bella's. Just like Barrett, Kaitlyn has suffered way to many losses as a champion. If you lose once in a while it's okay, but if you lose as much as Barrett and Kaitlyn has done lately, it makes the fans feel like they are not true champions.
Then we have the former US champion Antonio Cesaro. When he held the title he lost over 25 televised non-title matches during his reign as champion. This is more losses than any other former USA-champion has had before him! There was a time when Cesaro was billed as an unstoppable force, but that all fell flat during the fall of 2012. This year Cesaro has had the worst win/lose record in the history of any reigning champion within the WWE. Is that a good way to book someone who holds a title?
If WWE does not change their booking soon, more and more of the casual fans will feel like the mid-card titles doesn't have any credibility anymore. It wasn't long ago that it meant something being the USA or IC champion. Usually rising stars won these titles on their way towards the main event scene. But lately this has not been the case. During 2012 non of those whom held the USA or IC title went on to the main-event scene after they lost their titles. Men like Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes, Kofi Kingston, The Miz and Christian held the IC-title last year, but none of them had any main-event matches last year. Only at Elimination Chamber you get to see a few of those stars involved in either a 6-man elimination title match, or in a 6-man elimination contenders match. Once again I have to complain about the bad booking WWE has done the past couple of years.
If you want to give the mid-card and divas title any credibility you have to book them a lot better. A champion is supposed to look like a strong competitor who rarely loses, he is not supposed to be a jobber for the main-event players.
What do you think about the way WWE is treading their mid-card champions? Tell me your opinion in the comment section below.
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