The road to the second biggest show is starting to look bumpy

We are sitting here in mid-June 2026, and the creative team has clearly been hitting the energy drinks a bit too hard. SummerSlam is looming on the horizon, yet the current championship picture feels like a car crash waiting to happen. If you look at the board, we have titles stagnating while the writers scramble to find a fresh face who can handle the spotlight of a stadium crowd.

Booking a title change for the sake of a pop is the oldest trick in the book, and honestly, it is starting to smell like burnt popcorn. We have seen recent reporting on the title scene suggesting that management is desperate to offload some of these belts before August. Desperation is never a good look for a champion, and it is even worse for a company claiming to be in a golden age.

The mid-card vacuum is real

Take a hard look at the Intercontinental and United States titles. They have been passed around like a hot potato at a backyard barbeque for months now, and nobody looks like a star coming out of it. When your secondary belts feel like consolation prizes for people who lost a feud in the main event, you have failed the locker room.

The creative team needs to stop treating these championships as props for 20-minute promos that go nowhere. We need a physical, brutal feud that ends with a decisive fall. Bring back the days when a clean pinfall actually meant the guy holding the gold was the best man in the ring, not just the best guy at cutting a script provided by a room of tired writers.

Predictability is a booking disease

Everyone and their mother can call the outcomes three weeks out. That is a massive issue. When the main event of the big summer show feels as predictable as a 30-second squash match between a veteran and a jobber, you lose the crowd. I am not asking for a random title switch to shock social media, but I am asking for a reason to care past the initial bell.

We need stakes that feel real, not just a bunch of guys posing in the ring before a generic finish. If SummerSlam is going to be the spectacle management wants it to be, they need to inject some genuine heat into these divisions. A title reign should be a story, not just a holding pattern until the next premium live event rolls around.

The cost of bad storytelling

Management is going to have to make some tough calls before the summer heat hits. If they continue to prioritize safe, TV-friendly matches over compelling, organic rivalries, we are going to get the same 2.8 million viewership exhaustion we saw back in the spring. Wrestling is supposed to be a visceral experience, not a sterile product designed to keep sponsors happy.

I want to see someone get pushed to the limit, hit a high-angle suplex, and actually feel like they earned the gold. I do not want to see another dusty finish or a DQ ending that protects a guy who should be losing anyway. Give us some actual substance, or stop pretending that every title fight is a clash for the ages.