GUEST: I'm not hugely opposed to Brock Lesnar being the champ. Oh right, three of these superstars will probably not be back for a long time too… man RAW really isn't working right now. This will be replaced by video packages and a greater focus on the feuds featuring superstars that are actually going to be there the RAW after WrestleMania, such as Kevin Owens vs. Heading into WrestleMania, I think the Universal Championship will fade into the background for about half the shows - Goldberg and Brock Lesnar don't need to be on television every week when they make more money in one appearance than the rest of the roster make in a month. It's just another sign of WWE's reliance on aging veteran stars that are still more over today than anyone actively wrestling on the roster right now. Kevin Owens gets a memorable end to his unmemorable run as champion, but I can't say everyone's memory of this will be positive. They've brought in a legend who hit his peak in 1998 and handed him a world championship, and the fact that very few superstars carry the magnitude of Goldberg in the current crop of superstars is a damning indictment. WIGGINS: Personally, I don't think Goldberg holding the Universal Championship makes it feel any more valuable - I think it does more to highlight the weaknesses of the main roster. Basically, the main event scene is a jumbled mess and I don't think they can save it by Mania. If that were the case, if Kevin betrayed Jericho to appease Hunter, then why didn't he send his attack dog out to help him out? It feels like they may just dismiss that as H giving him some sound advice to cut the dead weight, and it would be such a disappointing payoff. Not to mention, suspicions of Triple H starting a new Evolution-like faction are more far fetched now. Meanwhile, KO and Jericho's story was so entwined with that Universal Championship that without it, it feels like it's taken a blow. But that feud was doing fine on its own, it didn't need a belt. There was no way Brock and Goldberg weren't main eventing, we all knew it, much as we've been pretending that Bray Wyatt might close the show.
By the time it was over, however, Owens looked like a chump, Triple H and his enforcer were nowhere to be found, and WrestleMania will be main evented by a match that quite simply didn't need a title.
It started so strong, with Kevin Owens having a solid, intelligent game plan that seemed to be working for him. But, I digress, because the issue here isn't Goldberg as Champ, it's how the match went down. The NXT Championship means so much because people are vying for it. Does that make the title worth more or less, and what does it mean for the Raw main event scene moving into WrestleMania?ĬHAFFIOTTE: Did I slip and fall into the year 2003? Personally, I have always and will always take issue with a part-timer holding a championship because it inherently makes it harder for other talent to chase it. Question 1:It is 2017, and Goldberg is WWE's top champion.
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