10 WCW Ideas Eric Bischoff Can Use To Boost SmackDown
1. A TV Title
For a time, WCW’s Television Championship was one of the most prestigious titles in the wrestling business. Defended on free weekly television, the championship conjures up fond memories for many a wrestling fan thanks to the title reigns of stars such as Arn Anderson, Steve Austin, Booker T, and Chris Jericho. It’s just a shame that the final memories associated with the championship are of Scott Hall throwing the belt in the trash before janitor Jim Duggan retrieved the gold for its final run.
More recently, the closest we’ve had to anything like the TV Title was when John Cena was doing his weekly open challenge for his United States Championship. And we can all agree, that weekly match quickly became one of the most hotly anticipated parts of WWE programming as it added a long-lost prestige to that particular belt.
It could be argued that WWE currently has too many titles, so if you’re of that school of thought, maybe having the Intercontinental Championship – currently held by Finn Bálor – defended on each episode of SmackDown is one way to instill a sense of weekly anticipation without oversaturating SmackDown with one too many titles.