Nobody Cares About The WWE World Heavyweight Title

By Nicholas A. Marsico @nickmarsico on October 25, 2014

At the Hell In A Cell pay-per-view, two of the most decorated champions in WWE history will battle it out inside the titular cell with a shot at the WWE World Heavyweight Championship hanging in the balance.

This is the kind of match that you would expect is happening after a drawn-out struggle between multiple men all vying for a chance to compete for the richest prize in sports entertainment, but it’s not. The match is pitting Randy Orton, who has been directionless for weeks upon weeks, and John Cena, who is getting this match as a consolation prize after being unable to win a match that he fought very hard to get.

Human nature often drives a man to seek revenge when he feels he has been wronged. That is what Cena and Dean Ambrose have been doing for almost two months; battling each other for a chance to seek revenge on Seth Rollins, a man who has definitely wronged both of them. However, all the time and effort they have dedicated to trying to get their hands on Rollins has been close to nonsensical.

Neither one of them seem to care about trying to win the WWE title, and there hasn’t been a struggle like this one in a long time in which men have fought passionately for a chance to hold pro wrestling’s most coveted championship.

Cena lost a match with the stipulation that the winner would get Rollins in a Hell in a Cell match. Because WWE the wants to make sure nobody considers the fact that wrestling has winners and losers, but instead winners and “other guys,” Cena backed his way into an opportunity for a title shot.

He was trying to get his hands on Rollins because Rollins interfered in his title match at Night of Champions and ruined his chance to win back his WWE title from Brock Lesnar. What would have happened if Cena won that Contract On A Pole match and found out that Ambrose, by way of being the other person in that match, was given a chance to earn a title shot?

Would Cena be upset? Would he demand that his match also allows him to earn an opportunity for a championship rematch?

The answers to those questions are unimportant. The important part is that we have not seen the WWE World Heavyweight champion for over a month. In that period of time, nobody has said a word to make it appear that they have even a slight amount of concern that the top man is nowhere to be found, and nobody has acted as though he’s gone!

The champion isn’t around and there is no clear No. 1 contender. Why isn’t everybody doing all they possibly can in order to get within sniffing distance of that spot? When they come out on Sunday with one man having earned a chance at Lesnar’s title (or maybe not) will they sit around for months waiting for Brock to return?

Will any of the wrestlers challenge Cena to put his title shot on the line? Will Cena celebrate his second chance to get his belt back, and then promptly stop mentioning it until Lesnar makes a surprise return to attack him conveniently just a few weeks before an upcoming PPV event?

The way we got to Orton vs. Cena is incredibly insulting to fans, and is one of the most backwards booking decisions in recent memory. Wrestlers should be pushing down the doors for a shot at the title. Instead, they are all taking a cozy nap on a hammock and hoping that one day they’ll wake up with a title shot in their laps.

Simply put, it seems that nobody cares about the WWE World Heavyweight Title.

Nicholas A Marsico is a pro wrestling writer for Rant Sports. Follow him on Twitter and Like him on Facebook!