While looking through YouTube, I watched a match between Marty Jones and Jean Pierre Avert (excuse the spelling), Jones's opponent wasn't known to many over here and the contest was billed as a title eliminater for the Mid-heavyweight title. So it seems that at some point a lot of effort was made to give titles a similar sporting status as in boxing, with rankings and eliminators and some sort of meritocracy. This was a departure from our American Cousins who seemed to give a title to the current flavour of the month. There were other touches like natonal anthems being played and flowers presented to the winner.
Titles in Britain no longer seem to have this status, the why is happen is probably more obvious than the when.
Do people have memories of the late 80's and early 90's where Title matches still had a level of prestige?
Do we think a credible set of titles and a ranking system to earn a title shot would benefit wrestling again?
For many years championship matches did not appear on TV. We were often told if these wrestlers meet for the championship if will not be on TV but at the Royal Albert Hall. This added to the credibility.
Also in the 1960s some boxing magazines had a wrestling section at the back.This also helped making it credible