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It's nice to watch wrestling every once in a while. It's nice that some title runs actually last a bit longer than usual. This is the case with the WWE World Cruiserweight Champion, Gregory Helm's latest run with the title. Heck, he even has a nice little feud between himself and Matt Hardy. But no one cares. No one cares about Helms, Hardy or the Cruiserweight belt. There is definitely a lack of competition for the champion as it is, no wonder he's the longest reigning Cruiserweight champion! The ECW title is strapped on a man that does not represent technical or extreme wrestling. RVD the former face of ECW once again seems to be only a mid-card player, and isn't promoted as a key attraction. So what do we do about these titles and wrestlers"

We give them feuds. Allow CM Punk to challenge Helms for his title, allow a stellar feud to be witnessed in ladder matches, and iron man matches. Let the Cruiserweight Title be defended like it means something. You see I believe the titles have to mean something. The cost of the titles should be what it takes to defend the title. Let CM Punk wrestle away the belt from Helms, and allow him to declare himself the ECW World Cruiserweight Champion. Let there be a change, because Smackdown doesn't have Cruiserweights left on the brand.

The ECW title needs to be a title driven by technical wrestlers. Wrestlers who can actually defend it, and make it worth something. When was the last time Chris Benoit was a World Champion" He just got back on to Smackdown, and he's reduced to play up the memory of the deceased Eddie Guerrero. Give Benoit an ECW title run and a feud with RVD. Let them fight over the title with main event submission only matches, steel cage matches and the occasional three way matches with Sabu.

But the key to creating a meaningful ECW belt lies in delivering a new ECW title. One that has a new lineage and reputation amongst WWE's brand extension system. Have CM Punk declare himself the greatest ECW World Champion that ECW has ever seen. Allow himself to constantly tout his endless achievements at defending his title across each brand. Place the Cruiserweight title in the main event sometimes. Make him prominent, and then put him in a tag team match with Chris Benoit the reigning ECW World Heavyweight Champion. Let CM Punk take the victory and declare himself second to none. This will elevate his title as well as him. By having the ECW Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion feud we can see that both titles are meaningful to the brand. Each title should be held in high regard, that no single title is above the other. If that isn't in the cards, then the titles should be united into an ECW Undisputed Championship title should take the places of both former titles. Redesign the belt, eliminate the old belt from a forgotten lineage. Tout the belt as defended within a specific rule set, one defined by technical (the new extreme) wrestling. Let the title actually mean something as defined by the wrestlers who defended it and the matches to win it.

Titles themselves are meaningless, what gives them meaning is the wrestlers who carry them. The titles are nothing without feuds, and nothing without defense. For a title to mean something it has to be defended in a meaningful way.

by Aric Kipling ..