10 Major Flaws With WWE's Current Booking Methods
1. Unwarranted Title Reigns
Winning a championship used to feel like a huge moment, and signify the victor's status as one of the best in the business. This is no longer the case in WWE, where title belts are often nothing more than worthless trinkets, having had their value gradually chipped away by years of questionable booking.
There are a number of sides to this, with the biggest being WWE's habit of passing their belts to wrestlers who don't feel like they've warranted a reign from a kayfabe standpoint.
Current WWE Champion Jinder Mahal is the obvious example, but there are plenty of others. Bray Wyatt's big Elimination Chamber win felt like a jarring fluke, given his atrocious pay-per-view win/loss record. Goldberg's Universal Title victory came on the back of a losing Royal Rumble performance. Randy Orton's last WWE Title run presented 'The Viper' in his most lethargic state.
Championship runs used to be reserved for the company's hottest, most exciting acts, but this is no longer the case. WWE don't assign reigns based on merit anymore. It increasingly feels like the company are drawing names from a hat these days, and until WWE sharpen up the way the belts are booked, they'll continue to feel like fashion accessories, not prizes.