10 DVDs WWE Are Considering For 2017

4. Cruiserweight Championship: 20 Years Later

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This would be a somewhat more timely release for 2016 with WWE's Cruiserweight Classic set to take place this summer, but no matter.

It's not immediately clear what the title means; 20 years later from what exactly? WCW's Cruiserweight title is considered by WWE as a direct continuation of the WCW Light Heavyweight title founded in 1991, and it's not even as though the newly re-christened strapped was re-introduced in 1997 - it was actually won a year earlier on an NJPW show by Shinji Otani in a tournament final against Chris Benoit (a pretty interesting bit of trivia which is sure to be omitted from this disk).

Bizarre justifications aside, the potential quality on display in such a box-set is mouth-watering. Malenko, Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Oklahoma...they'd all be there.

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