Cesaro deserves a good mid-belt title run, but main event? Idk. His work is phenomenal, but he would need some kind of gimmick and a new theme.
I feel like you need some kind of charismatic presence to be a top of the card champ. Someone like Rusev has that it spades. He just oozes personality no matter what he does. Big E is the same way, no matter the quality of the act, Big E’s personality comes through.
I haven’t really seen Cesaro hit those levels at any point in WWE. He deserves a chance as a singles champ to build that up though.
It is ridiculous how long they have wasted their top belts recently. Absolutely nothing is happening on the RAW side since it isn’t ever on TV, and seems destined to move to Roman at some point.
Smackdown the belt being on AJ is good, but they wasted a lot of time last year with the belt on Orton and Jinder forced some other guys who deserved a shot and a run to have to keep waiting.
Also I understand he doesn’t fit the requirements for this thread, but I would say Finn deserves a real run with a belt. He was only champ for a day, and still hasn’t been given even a rematch.