BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
“Worst Case Scenario” is a new take on the concept of “fantasy booking”. For years professional wrestling fans would spend endless hours of thinking up the coolest things that could happen. Why waste the energy? This only leads to high expectations. “Worst Case Scenario” flips that. Instead of looking through rose colored glasses, let’s take a bi-weekly look at the worst possible scenarios in professional wrestling. I’m not going to be malicious or anything too mean, but I will not refrain from letting my brain come up with the worst possible shit I can. Sadly, it seems the writers and producers of mainstream TV wrestling and the mainstream iPPV level indies are doing the same thing but charging us for it. And now…
“Wrestling With Weight Classes!”
For years boxing has had weight classes. This was mainly to make sure the fights aren’t so one-sided and the “pick on somebody your own size” law was passed. The result was things like “featherweight”, “middleweight”, and “cruiserweight” becoming things. Fans of boxing just accepted it. The UFC would adopt weight classes as well, but for some reason wrestling never really grabbed onto it.
Wrestling has had “cruiserweight” divisions and other countries have tried, but the weight class format in wrestling just doesn’t work. The idea of big vs. small, and any man vs. any man, is really part of the magic and mystique of wrestling. I’m sure they COULD go with weight classes, but how would that go?
For wrestling, let’s go with “Featherweight” for dudes under 210, “Cruiserweight” for under 225, “Middleweight” for under 240, and “Heavyweight” for 240+. You can complain and say I got it wrong, but let’s just pretend and be general here to get the point across.
CM Punk would never be Heavyweight champion again. Neither would Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, or a lot of the best guys today. The “Middleweight” title would be the hot commodity of the company as the Heavyweight title would be a boring strap for guys like Cena, Sheamus, and Kane.
Would it not encourage each division to try to be the best of the card? What happens when someone doesn’t make weight and the next in-line gets their shot that night? Would this be a horrible thing?
Yeah, most likely….
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