I will say that the Triple Threat at the Royal Rumble was easily Brock's best match since he returned if not his best match ever. I've never been much of a fan of the guy, but he earned my respect that night. That said, I'm fine with him being a part time attraction, but he shouldn't be holding the belt as such. Rollins has kind of languished with the MitB briefcase because what good does a title shot whenever you want it do when the champ is never there?
I think Brock is the exception in this case, and believe me I get frustrated when he's not on Raw on a regular and only fights on PPVs. But he has an aura about himself b/c of that. Now if someone like Roman Reigns did that, meh.
Even with secondary belts (and particularly should they get unified), you still have lots of guys with nothing to do and a fairly barebones tag team roster. I'm not saying overload it, but put a few more teams in it. After all, The New Age Outlaws formed because Road Dogg just went up to Billy (who, at the time, was doing a gimmick as "Rockabilly" with the Honky Tonk Man as manager) and said "Hey, let's team up."
True, sometimes it works like the Outlaws. But the Outlaws made it work, they worked on their craft and had stories with DX and other tag teams. Another example of that is APA.
Today it doesn't happen that much. Like Tyson Kidd and Antonio Cesaro. They have nothing in common and obviously better on their own. But with Antonio Cesaro teamed up with Wade Barrett or Sheamus (if he turned heel) they could have a badass brawling Euro team.
Squash matches can be a valuable tool to build a guy into something though. Goldberg is the best example of this IMO. I'm just saying that instead of ruining guys who can ostensibly get pushed, why not have those matches be against pure jobbers? They were doing a little of this to help build The Ascension.
If it's pure local jobbers, it makes it look even worse. The big guys already look menacing. IMO it's a waste of time that could be better spent building their characters.
I'd imagine they would switch up from time to time. But the goal here is to prevent "Creative has nothing for you" as well as pointless matches... especially if said pointless matches involve the same two guys trading wins back and forth and neither really getting over (and that was the point I forgot to bring up. Spoony went on about it at length in one of his Wrestle! Wrestle! recaps.)
I guess it could work, with a main event team, a midcard team, and undercard team with it being fluid. But at the end of the day, they need tv time.
Sure, you wouldn't want to go with just whatever random whim the audience has. But when crowd after crowd want Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler to be pushed... push those guys!
But they have. Look at Raw last night. It was focused on Daniel and Roman Reigns.
Daniel Bryan beat Triple H, Randy Orton, and Batista on the same night at freakin Wrestelmania. He's been allowed to bring actual fans into the ring and take over Raw. He has merch. He's in main events. Dolph is getting his time too, by his win at Survior Series. The crowd will want them to win everything, but that is just unrealistic and hypocritical with their John Cena hate.
Anyway, I think WWE has been reading our posts again. Started off with a non cheesy John Cena/Alexander Rusev promo. Guys going after the IC and U.S. titles and making them seem important. Goldust and Stardust getting a lot of time for their feud. Good matches throughout the night. Very little on screen Authority. Plus the show was focused on Daniel Bryan and Roman Reigns...two good guys that don't like each other and just going at it. That's what I'm talking about. WWE is more than capable of doing this, just need it on a consistent basis.
