>>18807823I keep seeing this lukewarm take on here, and it's retarded every time. One of the bigger problems with Japanese wrestling in particular, but western wrestling as well, is that everybody has to get shoehorned onto every card, so you end up with piles of heatless multi-man matches... and your solution is to further smash the roster together into an even more worthless lump of gray?
The junior/heavyweight division is a far cry from what it once was but it gives the roster the opportunity to breath. A super popular wrestler can challenge for the top belt of his division while another top wrestler can challenge for the top title of THEIR division. Nobody is seen as settling for a midcard title like your various TV/IC/NEVER/National titles and the card can feature multiple feuds. It's a win/win.
The alternative is everybody either getting into a queue for the singular top title or settling for a midcard title. Great... and that's good... why?
I'd rather see guys like Kushida, Hiromu, Yo-Hey, etc. treated like stars of their division than being challenger #12 in the heavyweight scene.
