Bye Bye Cruiserweight title?

Totoro101 · Movie Executive Producer

Bye Bye Cruiserweight title?

GLOWlad · A List Star

The WWE almost wilfully shoots itself in the foot. Its treat of its cruiserweight, and indeed tag divisions has long been appalling, and baffling.

Totoro101 · Movie Executive Producer

what tag team division? ;) I didnt know there was one in the company! But yep,it sucks but thats the way it is.Now we can look forward to the likes of Wang Yang and Noble being squashed regulary each week (if indeed they are lucky to get on tv..) in short matches with midcard upwards wrestlers.I just wish Vince would do the right thing and cull every cruiserweight on the Roster right now, theyll never be given any time to show what they can do so why waste money on talent they wont use and obviously dont need?

GLOWlad · A List Star

What ruins the tag division is this...sometimes they make an effort to build up a specialist tag team, make an effort to get them over. But then either...

a) They get beaten by a couple of guys feuding for a singles title

b) They lose a handicap match against someone like Triple H...if one of the WWE's best tag teams cant beat one guy, how does this make them look?

The treatment of the Cruiserweight is spiteful...I reckon they keep them under contract merely so the opposition cant sign them up.

There are some big men with no talent in the WWE, mentioning no names...

Darth Mattitude · The Dark Admin

To be fair the Cruiserweight title died over a year ago. It's never been taken seriously so they are better off without it. It's an opportunity missed as they could have moved the cruisers to ECW and made that one of the focal points of the show... Ahh well.

Handsome Dead · A List Star

I think the worst thing about this news is i'm not even slightly surprised by it.

Man In Black · Anime Mod

The title died over a year ago? Try three years ago when Chavo Sr and Jacqueline were feuding over it!

WWE has always been about big guys and have followed suit where WCW top tier guys would have the cruisers tone their matches down for fear of making the slower older heavyweights look bad.

The Cruiserweight title is like the Women's title - it had 5 minutes of credibility then went back to being a comedy prop. I'd say this was a mercy killing.

David McKinney · 500 Club Member

I think that the WWE realized that they can't compete with TNA's X Division. They have probably the best crusiers in wrestling right now, and WWE is tired of hearing about it. They should stick to the HW title and IC title.