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Originally Posted by Fignuts
In all honesty though, they'll never get over by just going out and wrestling, when the main eventers who have well established characters and time to connect with the audience wrestle the same style.
Cruisers in wcw got over with just their ring work, because 99% of the time, everything else on the card was dogshit.
Feel like cruisers should have been an nxt thing where the smark crowd will cheer great work regardless. Then they could move up to the main roster and see some actual progression in their career instead of being deadlocked into a sigle division that will never be anything more than a third string title.
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That's exactly the point. "See some actual progression." That's the problem with the cruisers. It's lower-card stuff. Always has been to that company and always will be.
The CWC was a hot button. It was a novel concept and everything had stakes. It was produced to feel different and sporty. That should have been it. Take the guys that work well and put them in NXT or on the main roster and don't label them as "small." In modern WWE where half the roster is small, you don't need to make them comparatively even smaller next to the small guys.
Then you can run a CWC 2 and try and get it on the USA Network or something. There's less commitment so people might give it a shot. Then you take the talent that work from that and rinse, wash, repeat.
When you have guys on the roster who are small enough for the division, but are "above" it (Finn Balor), how are people supposed to take the belt seriously? It's Velocity all over again. Doesn't matter if they go faster or harder or longer. It's not important and everybody knows it's not important. Drew Gulak can be as entertaining as he wants, if he's not being entertaining with the guys who matter, it doesn't matter.