9 Reasons WWE Should Bring Back The Cruiserweight Championship

By Alexander Podgorski /

7. It's A Perfect Way To Elevate Rising Stars

The enormously successful New Japan Pro Wrestling has a €˜graduation€™ system, where younger wrestlers work the high-flying style during their formative years so that they can get over as athletes first, and it€™s only after they€™ve demonstrated considerable athleticism and fighting spirit that they can €˜graduate€™ to the heavyweight division. This is a principle that can work in WWE. Making the smaller debutants in WWE compete for the Cruiserweight Championship as a primary stepping stone to the main event could do wonders for their careers. Since more and more viewers care about athleticism as much as character, placing them in a division that rewards cruiserweight wrestling with a championship belt would allow those wrestlers to showcase their high-flying agility and get rewarded for excelling in that style. It also allows for WWE to strike a balance between elevating smaller, more agile wrestlers, and the more emphasized heavyweights and strongmen. When you combine this €˜graduation€™ system with a Cruiserweight Championship that€™s elevated and presented as a worthwhile prize, you end up with a roster of highly-skilled wrestlers that compete for a major prize without being €˜relegated€™ to a €˜lower-tier€™ belt. And when the entire division is striving to demonstrate cruiserweight excellence in order to achieve that belt, you have more exciting matches. In other words, everyone wins.