Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24439254-20140422001152/@comment-5011123-20140423175438

Indeed, Van Dam needs some serious help there. I used to have some fun watching his earlier matches 10+ years ago, but he's looking and doing so badly in these latter parts of his career. Needs speed like Tajiri or Rey Mysterio of the 2000s timespan and the devastating impact behind his kicks like Steve Blackman or Albert/A-Train or even Booker T.

You bring up a valid point with how some pushes get limited after a wrestler achieves a certain level of success. Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't tried for a bigger push with Cesaro or Roman Reigns. We have in the past seen how those who won midcard titles as you put it, graduated to higher profile title matches. Of course, I doubt we'll see any more Triple Crown winners on the caliber of any great any of us can list. It's just a theory of mine that WWE's really trying to give Barrett a test-run and see if they can script him for higher-level matches involving more championships. If they decide to have Barrett defeat Van Dam then it should be a safe assumption they are really pushing him towards championship/main event status.