>>18970747>>18970368The problem is the existence of "mid card belts". They make no fucking sense even in kayfabe because they are completely parodoxical. If a wrestler says they are "mid card belts" specifically, in kayfabe, they completely destroy the illusion, and bring the ugly real truth that only merch sellers get the shiny belts. Inside of a more realistic kayfabe, the designations the belts have make no sense on a practical level.
In boxing and MMA, all you have are weight classes and the belts are divided that way. Very simple.
However, since wrestling is based on lying and scaling, weight classes aren't really a good thing to rely on because wrestlers can weigh vastly differently from week to week due to their lifestyle. Not to mention, on a technicality, they are the only """sport""" with championship bouts guaranteed at least once a month for a main belt. Imagine having to weigh in every time if they had a weight system each month, and then the next day for a rematch clause. It'd be ridiculous.
Next to that, we have the actual designation of the midcard belts themselves. "US Champion" and "Intercontinental". These mean absolutely nothing, because there is no basis for them whatsoever.
If you said someone is the "WWE US Champ", what does that make you think? They're a WWE champ... in the "US division".
...except WWE HAS no other establishments elsewhere.
Personally, I think this is something they aped from US football, where they call the winners of the Bowl the World/US champs to make it seem bigger than it is when their sport is LITERALLY only played in the US. NFL has no outside country establishments either. And we all know how much western wrestling, let alone WWE, wanted to make you think it was serious and a big deal. So of course they copy one of the biggest sports in the country.
The IC designation makes no sense because, again, there is no basis for it. Apparently it was made to unite a south american belt, but that's just stupid.
