9 Reasons WWE Should Bring Back The Cruiserweight Championship
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 its only after theyve 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 thats 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.
Alexander Podgorski is a writer for WhatCulture that has been a fan of professional wrestling since he was 8 years old. He loves all kinds of wrestling, from WWE and sports entertainment, to puroresu in Japan.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in Political Studies and French, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. He speaks English, French, Polish, a bit of German, and knows some odd words and phrases in half a dozen other languages.
