>>8491726It's not an angle, it's booking a standard TV title reign. Darby goes through a few nobodies for a few weeks, and the competition gets tougher over time. It's meant to be a fucking gauntlet, you can't just run through "the people that people care about." That was the worst part about Wardlow's run, they went from winning, to fighting someone people care about, then going through a gauntlet of nobodies until Joe turns up. The stakes were all over the place instead of a nice build from "He's got this" to "I can't tell who's winning here."