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Typically, I would think that it wouldn't either. My feeling on this particular Wrestlemania is that Rock vs. Cena and UT vs. HHH(if that happens) are going to overshadow anything else including a title match. To me, that would de-value the title. Of course, the title has been de-valued so much in the past decade and half that, I guess, it really doesn't matter.

You hit on a real pet-peeve of mine and that is the title's importance. Though it's very indicative of today's mainstream sports, the value of the team and title have been less of the marketing strategy than the athlete. Beginning with Michael Jordan's era, the plan is now to center sports around the money-making individual and no longer about the quest of a team for the title. We fell in love with Michael Jordan, not the Bulls. Same can be said of Lebron James. There was no love of the Cleveland Cavaliers before LBJ. Once he left, so did his fan base as they followed him to Miami. So, the Cavalier shirts turned into Heat shirts as the marketing of the individual moved.

What I am driving at is that the WWE is so focussed on the individual performer to carry the organization. There is no sense of building around the title and the importance of being the WORLD Champion. If we remember back to the territory days, we can all remember about how special it was to have the "World Champion" come into town. When Ric Flair was world champion and he would travel to St. Louis, the whole month before the buzz was about the upcoming match-up of their regional champion getting a match against the World Champ; in Texas, the opportunity for one of the Von Erich's to win the title just sent that territory into a craze. It was all about the title and didn't really matter if it was Flair, Race, Dusty or whomever had the world strap.

The WWE's short sighted thinking pushes Cena (rightfully so) as the most important commodity of the company. They only put the title on him because it seems like the title should go on the top guy, but not because the title is really of importance. I'm not sure that it will ever change, but the world title really means nothing anymore.

Thus, for me, don't waste the world title on the Cena/Rock match-up. Cena and Rock is the draw. It's the Main Event. Nobody, and I truly mean nobody believes that the Rock will walk away as the World Champion. He will never be a full time wrestler, thus there is no need in putting the title on him only to have him drop it the next night on Raw. So, if you want to make people believe that the Rock could actually win against the bionic man Cena, you don't add the title.

To your point, nothing is going to top that match or the Undertaker match, but you can still get value out of the World Title matches by getting them over at Wrestlemania. On Monday, the Rock and Undertaker will no longer be on regular television, so their Wrestlemania matches are only novelties with no storyline future. But for the title-holders, they begin their run on the Monday night after WM and it will not matter whether they were overshadowed the previous day, they will be the focus going forward.

Thoughts? Rebuttal?