WWE Botch of the Week: Burying 3 Titleholders on 1 Raw Show

Titles in pro wrestling don’t mean nearly as much as they once did. 

While the WWE has done a decent job of trying to change this as of late, the ridiculous number of short title reigns is the arguably biggest factor in killing the prestige of the company’s championships.

I say “arguably” the biggest because the actual biggest might simply be how WWE titleholders are often turned into jobbers. 

Just look at last night’s episode of Monday Night Raw as proof.

The main event match was scheduled to be Brodus Clay vs. The Big Show, but before it could get started, Show attacked Clay and started viciously laying into him, causing WWE Tag Team Champions Kofi Kingston and R-Truth to come out for the save. 

Why? Because they teamed with Clay once a couple of weeks back? 

That was some storyline continuity for a change, but what the WWE obviously doesn’t realize (or just doesn’t care about) is that the Kingston and Truth looked like morons last night. 

You’re telling me that the tag-team champs—combined with a 380-pound Clay—can’t use their numbers advantage to take out The Big Show? 

That’s such idiotic booking. 

It makes Kingston and Truth look so weak to come out there and get destroyed by The Big Show, in turn, completely cheapening the value of the WWE Tag Team Championship. 

Why should we care about the Tag Team Division when one man demolished its champions in about 60 seconds? 

Well, we shouldn’t. And we really shouldn’t care about the United States Championship, either. 

Santino Marella is the US Champ, but he jobbed to Alberto Del Rio in less than a minute on last night’s show. I don’t care how it happened—the bottom line is that it happened. 

I know Santino’s a comedy character, but it makes the mid-card look really bad to have your champion job to a main eventer. Put some other random lower card in that role—anyone but a mid-card titleholder. 

This seems like a simple philosophy to me, but it’s one that apparently holds little to no importance in the minds of the WWE brass. 

They don’t care what they do to their champions who aren’t main eventers because they don’t care about their mid-card, and that’s a shame. 

In one two-hour show, the WWE managed to destroy the credibility of both the tag-team title and the US title. 

Why? To make a 35-year-old who isn’t over and a 40-year-old who’s been main eventing for more than a decade look good?

Great booking, WWE. Great booking.

Drake Oz is the WWE Lead Writer for Bleacher Report. You can follow him on Twitter and ask him any wrestling-related questions (to be answered in the B/R Mailbag) on Formspring.