Sabin's a good worker and all, but he's devoid of charisma outside of the MCMG partnership and literally just got back into the company. He doesn't have the type of heat behind him that Aries had that merited them derailing a storyline to put the belt on him, and then they did it in such an ass backwards way as to make his win look like a total fluke. They should've just had Sabin wrestle him straight up, run even with Bully, and look like a never say die babyface, then lose. I feel like that would have been better for him.
And yes, I would much rather have Bully Ray as the champion of TNA right now than Chris Sabin. Charisma and talking ability means a lot, and I've never rated Sabin as some super worker. Good, pretty good. But not an amazing guy in the ring or anything.