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World Wrestling Entertainment has been the main staple for professional wrestling for the entire 14 years I have been watching wrestling. Since the Late 90's the WWE had used a development company to build not ready wrestlers to tune up their skills before being brought up to the big time. The company is Ohio Valley Wrestling, or OVW for short, and it is responsible for most of the new stars that come into the WWE. In the past year I have started watching OVW and while I watched I noticed something weird that I couldn't explain: OVW is better than the WWE. Monday Night RAW minus a few good segments are hard to watch due to how bad the storylines are and how three of the four championship divisions are in the toilet. Friday Night SmackDown is very weak with a roster that has no depth and a day and times that cause people to have a hard time catching it. After One Night Stand I thought the new third brand of the WWE might be good but if the shows continue to be like the first ECW will be as bad as the other two. While these brands fail, the development territory that is supposed to be the minor league is actually so much better in every aspect. It leaves the question, where is WWE going wrong if the developmental company is better than the main show"

If you watch the three brands of WWE on TV, you see that it is lacking strong storylines. If you watched OVW since November of last year you would see one of the best feuds I have seen in a long time - Brent Albright vs. CM Punk. On November 9, 2005, Brent Albright was supposed to wrestle Ken Doane in a match for the OVW television championship. Before the match could start, CM Punk hit Brent Albright with a chair and took him out of the match so that he could replace him. In the end CM Punk won the match and the OVW TV Championship getting not only a title but an enemy in Albright. The two had a series of matches with one of my favorites being a match where it went to a time limit draw and Albright asked for an extra five minutes in which he made Punk submit. It didn't count because after the submission Punk said that he never accepted it so he would retain his title. January 4, 2006 Punk lost his TV Title in a three-way match to Aaron Stevens but his feud. with Albright was far from over. The feud became even more intense when the OVW Championship was vacated. The two stars battled their way through the tournament to get to the finals where Albright beat Punk to become the OVW Champion. The feud. finally ended. After two months of Punk getting close to winning Albright's OVW Championship he finally did on May 3, 2006 beating Albright in a Strap Match. Please explain how this amazing 6-month feud happened in OVW and WWE can't even do something that good.

The funniest thing about the fact that OVW is better than the WWE is that World Wrestling Entertainment can use the storylines and characters they make in OVW and use them in the WWE, but they don't, and that is why a lot of the guys brought up from OVW fail. Look at former OVW Champion Nick Dinsmore for an example. He is a former 11-time OVW Southern Tag Champion, and more importantly, a former 9-time OVW Champion. He should at least be in the IC Title picture by now. Nick Dinsmore is not in the IC title picture because he is Eugene, Eric Bischoff's Special nephew, who is a low card wrestler at best. Rob Conway, Dinsmore's tag partner for 10 of his 11 Tag Titles and a former four time OVW champion as well, is a jobber on Heat with a lower status even than Dinsmore. I love the Spirit Squad right now but two of the five can't stay cheerleaders forever.

The point I am trying to get across with my rant is that WWE has the talent and writers to take their shows to the next level. If you watch OVW you see that if they put WWE production quality into the show and put it on TV, the ratings would be better. If you look at heavyweight titles in wrestling most of them have lost the luster. They have the type of feuds that have been tied in with the OVW title in the past year, and are up to par in my opinion with the best world title in the business today the ROH World Title. The Albright/Jeter feud into the battle of the Thrill Seekers over the title into the emotional surrender of the title by Matt Cappotelli into the tournament into CM Punk finally wining the title from Albright was some of the best stuff to come from a form of the WWE in a long time. I don't understand that while this wasn't on TV the crappy title reigns of both Batista and Cena were boring the fans of the WWE on TV.

Ohio Valley Wrestling is the minor league of World Wrestling Entertainment but it doesn't feel that way. If WWE wants to have a bright future in the wrestling business, they need to push the OVW guys correctly. If they push these guys right like they do sometimes you get success. John Cena, Batista, Carlito, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Lashley and others have had a successful career in WWE coming out of OVW, I don't understand why Vince can't give that fair shake to all graduates of OVW who really deserves it. I think that they should also look at OVW for storylines because they are very strong. In conclusion, if the WWE wants to have an amazing future they need to look into OVW and try to think toward a future rather than a future release.

by Jeff Springer ..