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I've been enjoying this thoroughly, but I'm afraid they've booked themselves into a corner come Sunday. Everyone and their mothers can see they have absolutely no purpose for Rusev after his first loss--be it against Cena, Swagger, the Patriot, etc.--once he loses, his entire gimmick of "America is beneath me" is crushed (pun probably intended) and he goes to fighting jobbers. If Swagger loses his momentum plummets, and unless he gets a win over Rusev soon after he falls into face midcard hell. It'd be pointless to give away Rusev's first loss on free TV; it should be saved for a PPV. Hopefully, we see either a no-contest or a tough Rusev win, culminating with Swagger continuing the feud and winning at Summerslam.

Hopefully this means that it'll return in a year or so and we'll have 2 World Titles once again.

I've been taking TV Broadcasting classes the past two years at school, and shaking the camera up and down is definitely not how I was taught how to work a camera. I talked to my teacher about it and he said it was horrendous. The footage becomes blurry and it becomes harder to follow what's going on. They should either zoom out and stay on a shot of both competitors involved or zoom in on the impact and stay on the impact. I understand the "chaos" that they're trying to portray with it but it simply just does not work.

Paul Heyman still owes Barrett a favor from 2012

...you guys had a Chi-Town Rumble...



lol

The most inspirational cat I've ever seen.

First of all, if they do unify it they better not start calling the resultant product the "United States Intercontinental Title" or some BS like they do with the WWE Title. It's too wordy, confusing and downright stupid as the name of a company's championship.

They shouldn't unify the belts in the first place anyway. Wrestling as a whole is different than it was in the 1980s were there wasn't a demand for more championships. Four titles was fine for 1987 but it seems odd and out of place in 2014, not unique. Unifying the World Titles guarantees the title picture to revolve around the same handful of stars because with only one major championship the WWE would be less likely to give an up-and-comer a World Title, instead of giving them the lesser (WHC) and testing the waters before solidifying them with the WWE Title. The likes of Cesaro, Seth Rollins, Dolph Ziggler, and Kofi Kingston have NO SHOT of a World Title run for the forseeable future because, let's be honest, none of them would be able to carry the company's top title, even in a fluke run. Instead, the only main-event title feud, the only match that would go on last on PPV save for a grudge match with a seasoned veteran (HHH, Brock, etc.), revolves around the likes of Cena, Orton, Batista, Kane, Sheamus, and Roman Reigns. It makes the product bland and predictable because say the WWEWHC match on PPV is Cena/Barrett. They could do the best job in the world of building Barrett but everyone and their mothers know he won't be holding the biggest title in the company (the example leads into the "oh because he's fighting Cena" argument but you could replace him with anyone else I've mentioned). The same blandness that occurs at the top will occur at the bottom of the card if the IC and US titles are unified.

What have the midcard "feuds" been this year without the championships? We've had 3MB fighting Los Matadores because midgets, we've had Cesaro/Van Dam/Swagger in a poorly-construed rivalry, Rusev versus America and random Vladimir Putin references, and now we're treated to a love rectangle between Dolph/Fandango/Summer/Layla. The feuds we've gotten, and in turn the matches we've seen on PPV, have been lacking and, again, bland. The titles have added two quality matches to the card on the PPVs they've been defended. Big E/Barrett at Extreme Rules, Sheamus/Cesaro and Barrett/Van Dam at Payback. The title gives the feud some reality, something special that's lacking with non-title feuds. Goldust and Stardust vs. Rybaxel at MiTB got almost no crowd reaction. Big E/Barrett had the whole crowd on their feet. Yeah the championships are "devalued" and are just "props," but you could convince me easily that Guy A wants the belt from Guy B and will do what it takes to win it, and when he doesn't he moves on and Guy B takes on his next challenge. If these belts are unified--especially if the US Title is dropped, basically making Sheamus's reign irrelevant because he did nothing to re-legitimize it from Ambrose's stranglehold on the belt--we lose one more exciting PPV match, one more relevant and explainable feud, and one less "prop" that keeps the current product fresh.

SmackDown sounds rough. I don't get the whole Fandango and the ladies payoff with the ladies turning on him. Hell I don't understand Fandango being featured twice on SmackDown. And I hope to god the Wyatts win the titles at Battleground so this feud could end.

WWE World Heavyweight Title
John Cena (c) vs. Brock Lesnar

Roman Reigns vs. Triple H

Last Man Standing Match for the MiTB Briefcase
Seth Rollins (c) vs. Dean Ambrose

Chris Jericho & The Usos vs. The Wyatt Family

Stephanie McMahon vs. Brie Bella

Kane & Randy Orton vs. Dolph Ziggler & Sheamus (the IC and US Champions, respectively)

Cesaro vs. Rob Van Dam

Divas Championship
AJ Lee (c) vs. Paige

Cody Rhodes vs. Goldust