Kane started off the year in a feud that lasted over two months with John Cena, the centerpiece of the company. Cena, not surprisingly, went over Kane to end the feud. Cena continued to be pushed as the centerpiece, while Kane moved down.
Kane then entered a feud with Randy Orton, who was at one time the centerpiece of Smackdown. He beat Randy Orton at Wrestlemania, and on Orton's own birthday. Nevertheless, Orton ended up winning that feud.
The next major feud for Kane involved him feuding for the WWE Championship, while also getting involved in a romance angle involving AJ Lee, CM Punk, and Daniel Bryan. Obviously, Kane did not win the title.
Since then, Kane has teamed with Daniel Bryan and won the Tag Team Championship. There have been a few instances where he has still been main-eventing recently. He is getting plenty of opportunities to be featured. He has one of the best storylines going right now with Daniel Bryan.
Kane started off 2012 as a jobber to the centerpiece. They built him up for Cena to overcome, Cena did, and that was it. But look at all the other things he has done after that. I didn't even list some of the other things between all that. Kane has been feuding with main-eventers since his feud with Cena. He was a contender for titles and Money in the Bank. He is holding titles right now. He seems to never have to wait long to get some good storyline. If you consider that they could have legitimately put him in U.S. or Intercontinental title feuds, you realize that there were even more possibilities for Kane than what has played out.
Not so bad being used to put over the centerpiece of the company, is it? There are still many possibilities after that, as you can see with the example of Kane. In the diva division, you don't get that. The men's division is more open. Once a diva is done putting over the centerpiece of the division, there aren't exactly tag titles or midcard titles that they move on to compete for. Even though the periphery is pretty much the only real place to still get pushed well after being used to put over the centerpiece, you don't see credible jobbers get that kind of treatment. Look at Beth Phoenix. When her title reign ended this year, they didn't bother trying to develop any other storyline for her. If you ever do see a diva get treated well after feuding with a centerpiece, that woman is most likely a periphery diva, not a credible jobber. Those frequent depushes and poorer pushes after putting over a centerpiece or being pushed as interim centerpiece are one of the major indicators of being a credible jobber.
Since I am talking about the diva division, let me mention one more thing. You have a centerpiece, Eve Torres. You have a strong periphery diva, AJ Lee. But when it comes to credible jobbers, they are really in trouble right now. Layla has been getting pushed as a credible jobber. Natalya is still there. Even if Beth Phoenix was never leaving, she has been around for a long time. They need to debut more fresh women from NXT with solid wrestling ability. If you see a woman fitting that profile debut within the next few months, don't be surprised to see them feuding against Eve very soon. Without good credible jobbers, I don't think they can properly leave the current dark age the diva division is in, even though they have a new centerpiece in place. Without strong, fresh jobbers to put that centerpiece over, you can't go far.
As for Kane, the year is not even over for him yet. Even after he loses the tag titles, you can imagine that his angle with Daniel Bryan will still go on for a little while longer after that. He has not been truly buried at all this year, despite starting the year as an obvious jobber to the centerpiece. People take that kind of thing for granted, but it never happens like that for jobbers to the centerpiece in the diva division.
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