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Becky Lynch has finally did it. After two years of struggling on a division that she helped create, Becky Lynch finally scaled the mountain and slew the Queen herself to win her second Women's championship. It was a moment that was long due, and fans appreciated it with a huge cheer for Becky, despite her status as an anti-hero right now.
However, Becky isn't the only one who was long due to a run with a championship after years of hard work. Becky was just an element of a superstar array that includes some of the most popular and hard-working superstar on the current WWE roster. Becky might have made it to the top once again, but these superstars are equally deserving of a title reign as Becky was a few months ago.
Here are 5 superstars who, after years of working their ass off, are more than deserving of a championship reign right now.
#5 Kevin Owens
It really hard to watch Kevin Owens on WWE programming nowadays. As one of the biggest fan of The Prizefighter since his early days in NXT, it is really saddening to see him feature in meaningless feuds on Raw, lose to almost every top-level superstars on the show and do nothing but take a beating from everyone.
If that isn't enough, he was thrown off the stage locked in a toilet, off a 20-foot ladder into a dumpster and off the steel cage through the announce table, before being squashed in a little over a minute. What else does he have to do to show that he is someone that the company can trust as a superstar? He is not a punching bag, He is a Former World Champion.
WWE had the perfect opportunity to turn KO face during his feud with Braun Strowman, but only did they completely let that bypass, they used KO to get Braun over and turned him heel just a week later, which is just as confusing as every storyline of Raw these days. KO is a bonafide main event superstar and is long due a World Title reign now. Heck, even a run with the Intercontinental Title would be a good way to thank him for all the sacrifices he has already made this year.
#4 Rusev
WWE not pushing Rusev to the top of the card when the whole WWE Universe was vociferously cheering for him and then breaking his partnership with Aiden English is the typical way of them telling everyone that they don't care what we, the fans like or want. Despite being probably the most over superstar on the entire roster in the first half of 2018, WWE astonishingly kept Rusev a heel instead of turning him into a babyface.
Even when he started a somewhat weird babyface turn around the WrestleMania season, WWE continued to book him as a stepping stone for the top tier superstars instead of giving him a run with a championship. Given the talent that he has and the success that he achieved during his early run, it is a shame that WWE has not pushed him consistently.
However, with his partnership with Aiden English coming to a sad end last week on Smackdown, it is now the perfect opening to finally develop Rusev back as a dominant mid-card superstar. With superstars like Styles, Joe, Orton, Miz, and Bryan comfortable in the main event scene, the US Title scene is the perfect place for him. A lengthy feud with Shinsuke Nakamura, with whom he shares tremendous chemistry, and a long due US championship win later this year would be the best way of celebrating a Happy Rusev Day.
#3 The Revival
The Raw Tag Team Division is in an awful state right now. Don't get me wrong. Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler are doing a good job as the tag team champions and just wrestled possibly WWE's match of the year with Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose at Hell in a Cell. But neither of those four are full-time tag team wrestlers, and will soon move back into singles action.
The biggest reason for this dismal state of the red brand's tag division is because of the lack of bonafide and proper tag teams. Ever since The Bar and The Good Brothers were sent to Smackdown, WWE had to rely on temporary teams like Hardy/Wyatt and B-Team for holding the title. There's only one option that WWE has now to prevent their prestigious division from becoming obsolete, and that is The Revival.
WWE's booking of The Revival has been somewhat baffling since their debut back in 2017, which includes a burial at the hands of DX and The B-Team in 2018, but there is always a chance of redemption in this industry. WWE should have put the belts on them at Summerslam, and, even though they didn't, should consider doing the same as soon as possible. A tag division with The Revival as the champions and AoP as the challengers would reap gold for Raw and WWE.
#2 Finn Balor
There was a time at the start of the year when it seemed that WWE might have finally decided to push Finn Balor as a legitimate main event star. After all, he was giving career-defining performances at the Royal Rumble, was fighting for a Universal Title shot at Elimination Chamber and wrestling sensational matches with Seth Rollins and The Miz for the Intercontinental Title throughout the Mania season.
Boy, were we proven wrong by the WWE. Apart from appearing, finally appearing, as the Demon King to squash Baron Corbin at Summerslam, Finn Balor has done exactly nothing in the last 4 months apart from smiling and getting humiliated by Corbin. WWE has a whole division in front of them for Balor to lead, and they are just using him to put over superstars who are way below his talent.
Ever since he feuded with Seth Rollins over the Intercontinental Title earlier this year, there have been a lot of demands of putting that illustrious title on him. It is the best option WWE has for Balor and the title after Seth Rollins' reigns ends in the near future.
With a lot of dream matches at hand, such as a dream match with Shinsuke Nakamura at Survivor Series, and gigantic rivalries with the likes of Kevin Owens and Bobby Roode, WWE should not wait anymore and finally put a title on Balor after 2 years. And Please, Get that smile out of his face.
#1 Samoa Joe
Please WWE, Just give him the WWE Championship. Agreed that AJ Styles has done a good job as the WWE Champion in his reign, but now it's Joe's time to carry that prestigious title with pride. I mean, just look at his tremendous heel work during the ongoing feud with Styles. The man is a beast, a perfect championship material, and yet he hasn't tasted championship success even 2 years after his debut.
While it was heartbreaking to see Shinsuke Nakamura come short on every occasion during his WWE Championship rivalry with Styles earlier this year, WWE can't let the same happen to Joe. WWE is really short of phenomenal heels right now, and clearly, there is no one better at doing that than Joe. Plus, a run with the WWE Title, after almost a year of AJ Styles reign, would be as good a breath of fresh air as it was at the end of Lesnar's horrible reign.
Just take a look at the names with whom Joe can feud with the WWE Title in his grasp - Daniel Bryan, Jeff Hardy, Andrade 'Cien' Almas, and Randy Orton. All of them are just dream feuds that no one could have ever imagined a few years ago. Plus, AJ needs a break from the title scene after such a long reign, and a loss to Joe would have exactly zero effect on his credibility, but it would surely skyrocket Joe's stock in WWE.
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