Jak, I would like to address your "roster is thin at the top" thing though. Let's compare to when the WWE was actually good, say, attitude era?
After WM in 1998, as far as I can tell (and I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong on this) there were a whopping TWO people on the active roster who had EVER been champion. Austin (current) and Taker (former). Over the course of the next two years they'd go on to add a whopping four more: Kane (for about a minute), Rock, Foley, and HHH.
Let's compare to today. I'm going to try and list all the "former world champions" currently on the active roster. I'm sure I'll miss at least one because there's so many.
Cena
Orton
Miz
Christian
Rey
ADR
Swagger
Kane
Punk
Jericho
Mark Henry
Big Show
and that's not even including the guys "on the edges" who aren't really active but could be called upon to do a match if needed: Khali, Booker, HHH, Taker, etc. Also not counting Dolph's completely illegitimate reign.
Sure, some of this is due to two titles, some is due to crappy MITB booking, but I think in all honesty, every one of those guys (except possibly Swagger) COULD, with the proper booking, be a main-event level star and dominate at the very top of the card.
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