For TNA particularly we all know that drawing new fans and gaining new viewers is something they truly need to do, while WWE can continue to put up the numbers they are and survive without any struggle if they don't gain.

With that being said I truly feel what I’m going to discuss with you today is more so what TNA needs to do in order to possibly redefine wrestling and make it a significant part of a fans life once again to the point where a person can once again be proud to say "I'm a wrestling fan". Personally I think both the WWE and TNA products are stale at this moment and are lacking what it needs to be in order to offer us strong weekly entertainment, but the WWE more so.

Moving forward lets ask ourselves what is missing from wrestling these days? and what has caused it to be seemingly less and less interesting over the years?. Is it lack of rising superstars?, bad booking?, not enough entertaining matches?, or just poor storylines?. The truth is, I think it might be everyone of those in one way or another, but I think the biggest problem among it all, is lack of focus on each division itself.

Lets take a stroll in history going back to the attitude era and even further down the road into the 80’s. Looking into the 80’s and maybe early 90’s every division in wrestling seemed to mean something and every title had strong focus.

In the tag team division we had teams like LOD, The Rockers, Demolition, Hart Foundation, Money Inc(Irs & Ted Debiase) The Nation of Domination, The Headshrinkers, The Steiner Brothers and the Nasty Boys.

In the attitude era from around 97-2000 range: There was, The New Age Outlaws, The Acolytes, The Hardy Boys, The Rock n Sock connection, The Dudley Boys, Too Cool and Edge and Christian.

The intercontinental division: In the 80’s to early 90’s we had champions like Greg Valentine, Tito Santana, Randy Savage, The Ultimate Warrior, The Honky Tonk Man, Mr. Perfect, Bret Hart, British Bulldog, Razor Ramon, Shawn Michaels and Rowdy Piper.
97-2000 range. Names like Goldust, Rocky Maivia, Edge, Chris Jericho, Ahmed Johnson, Owen Hart, Jeff Jarrett, Ken Shamrock, Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit.

The Heavyweight title: In the 80-90’s we had champions like Hulk Hogan, Bob Backlund, Andre the Giant, Sgt Slaughter, Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man, Ric Flair, Bret Hart, Diesil, Shawn Michaels, Sid and The Undertaker.
97-2000 range: Stone Cold, The Rock, Mankind, Triple H, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho(01).
The range is more thin around this time because champions seemed to be champions for much longer in this era.

WCW during certain times also had strong divisions particular the cruiserweights at one point and there tag division as well and with Hogan, Savage, Sting, Flair and Goldberg they at one point had a very strong heavyweight division, but I’m not going to run down a WCW list, for more history on that look it up.

Going on with my column my point is that every division had great means of quality superstars in its time with strong competition and the divisions that all meant something because of it. The tag team division had plenty of natural tag teams throughout the years, many not just thrown together, the Intercontinental division had some strong superstars who would later go on to be even bigger and highlight the heavyweight division. Lastly we have the heavyweight division who had champions like Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, The Undertaker and later in the attitude era Stone Cold Steve Austin and the Rock who were both probably the biggest names in redefining wrestling and the WWE at that point in time.

Every division and title in it at these points of time in wrestling meant something of great significance and because of it fans had desire to watch, to care, to strongly love a wrestler or love to hate them, while these days it tends to be a struggle for fans to even get interested, stay interested or for new fans to be drawn.

Can we look at wrestling today and say that every division and every title in each division mean something, or at least mean anything relatively close to what it meant during the certain eras of times, that I’ve mention above?.

Take a good look at the tag division in wrestling these days, most particularly for the WWE, are there any more than maybe 3 solid focused teams, that the WWE have truly made mean something? If so, please do tell.

And in TNA there might be a variety of real teams with a natural tag feel or tag chemistry, but how many are actually given the serious focus and enough television time to develop personalities in order for fans to really care or take the division seriously?

Let's just look at the Motor City Machine Guns for example, they have all the means to be one of the most exciting tag teams we have seen in a long inside the ring and even on the microphone in promos, yet TNA doesn't give them time to display all of it.

TNA fails to put the right amount of focus on the division to mean as much as it could and the WWE really don’t have much of a division at all and normally just ending throwing wrestlers together to make teams. (although it’s great to at least see that an actual team in the Hart Dynasty has the titles right now, but its still not enough).

The intercontinental division might be running fairly strong, but the problem with the division from now to than is how many guys do you see in the division end up becoming one of the main features within the WWE in the future or the question is, will the WWE end up pushing them?.

Looking at the past the Intercontinental division was a stepping stone for superstars, many who eventually went on to the heavyweight division to stardom. How many guys in the division can you see becoming a star or can you see the WWE pushing in the future to be that?. I could be wrong here, but I don’t have confidence or believe that Kingston your current champion will ever end up being pushed to the point of stardom or to a heavyweight champion status level.

Its great to see Rey Mysterio as the heavyweight champion on Smack down, but regardless of how great Rey may be in the ring, he will never live up to previous champions from a stardom standpoint and nor will a guy like Sheamus in my opinion.

And John Cena obviously the biggest star in WWE right now, might be the guy they are focusing on most in drawing fans or selling merchandise, but again lets face facts whether you love or hate Cena he will never be a Rock, he will never be an Austin and he will not even compare in many levels.

I know trying to live up to such names in today’s world of wrestling may be exceedingly difficult, but the truth is The Rock and Austin when they were the main features in WWE could not only entertain you on the microphone, but they could entertain you at a fairly high level in the ring against just about any one. It’s a struggle for John Cena to even put on a fairly good match against someone with in ring talent and for me it’s just not good enough if that’s going to the guy your going to say is “going to carry our company in the future”. It just doesn’t fit the criteria of a true deserving champion and one that is acceptable to fans, at least not in this day and age.

Last but not least I’m not saying the potential for wrestling divisions to once again mean something aren’t there, but the fact of the matter is, no division has been booked to have that serious feel it once had in years past.

How I long as a longtime wrestling fan or viewer to once again see such a powerful tag team division with lots of competition that make the title hard to keep, a cruiserweight division(X division today) that gives us high flying action not seen anywhere else on television with characters who have some personality and focus on a weekly basis , a heavyweight division that is oozing with stars that cannot only entertain us with words, but dazzle us in the ring with great wrestling ability and lastly an intercontinental division (TNA’s case a Global title division) that consists of superstars that can and will end up being future heavyweight champions.

I see more hope in TNA especially with a tag team division and of course an X division that with the right amount of focus could give us quality action that we have not seen in quite some time, but the booking has to be right, storylines have to make sense and most of all wrestlers in every division need the right amount of focus in order to make themselves and the titles they are holding mean anything to a viewer or fan.

Ending my column at one point every division in wrestling did mean something, did have strong focus and for me it made wrestling mean so much more than it means today. The lack of focus on certain aspects of wrestling these days is killing the amount of entertainment it could truly bring to a fan and until those who are booking for either company realize this, I don’t believe we will ever see a wrestling product that at one point was a highly watch able one and a program we were all proud to say we watched.

I truly believe that if every division was booked with focus on personalities, heated rivalry’s and in general had a great base of competition for every title, it would be a step in once again redefining what has been missing in wrestling for quite some time.

Thanks for reading wrestling fans
And best of blessings.