[PW Insider] WWE Prepping Another New Championship (Paywall)
[PW Insider] WWE Prepping Another New Championship (Paywall)
Plans are underway for WWE to introduce a Women's Intercontinental Championship for the WWE RAW brand.
The expectation is that it would likely start to get rolled out after the Women's United States Title has been established.
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Wrestling in general has too many belts. When I was growing up, they had the WWF title, the intercontinental title, and the tag team titles. That's all.
Now granted, yes, I realize that the women need their own versions too.
So make the WWE Womens belt (which in my opinion should have been the one dating back to the 1960s with the great moolah, and then wendi richter in the 80s, alundra blaze/sable in the 90s, then a whole bunch of people in the 2000s. Mostly Lita/Trish Stratus/Victoria/Gail Kim. Then they ditched that belt for the "divas" belt.
Fuck the divas belt. Fuck the divas. Not because they're women, but because the whole mentality of the divas division is attractive but untalented models roll around in their underwear. Fuck that. Give me the modern version of womens wrestling.
They should be doing the WWE womens belt. The old lineage.
Outside of that belt, they should have a secondary belt. And a set of tag belts.
Instead they have 2 belts. One for raw, one for smackdown. But that's not enough. So they give both to roman. Then create a new one on raw. Then what the fuck was the point of consolidating them???
Then they have like 4 secondary belts. Two sets of tag belts, they've had at various times the cruiserweight belt, the 24/7 belt, a digital media belt, I seem to remember a cardboard belt at one time.
It should be really really simple.
WWE title. Dates back to 1963.
Intercontinental title. Dates back to 1972.
Tag belts. ???
WWE womens title. Dates back to the 1960s.
Womens secondary belt. I guess you're establishing the Womens United States Belt this year. Great. Use that.
Womens tag belts. I think 2018 they started these? Could be wrong.
And MAYBE one floating gimmicky title that changes every few years. They had the million dollar belt for a while. Then the European title. Then the Hardcore title. Then they went a long while without a gimmicky title. Then they had the 24/7 belt.
But how many titles does one company need? Oh, everybody is a champion I suppose!
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Wrestling has fans all wanting their favorite wrestler to be a champion, and good luck getting every wrestling fan to agree on who their favorite wrestler is.
The only reasonable solution is lots of championships. At least until we all finally come to our senses, and agree that QT Marshall, Mei Suruga, and Eddie Kingston are champions for life.
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QT can retire tomorrow and nobody would even know he was missing.
No idea who this Suruga guy is. Never heard of him.
And Kingston is one of those wrestlers who doesn't even need a belt. Eddies personality is the championship.
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The latter half of my response was intended as humor, because they were intentionally obscure or controversial picks. But, since that's the part of my response you chose to focus on:
I personally think QT Marshall is an excellent mid-card heel, I do not put him on the level of a Roman Reigns or a Kenny Omega. I simply enjoy that he's genuinely skilled in what he does. I was disappointed when he briefly left AEW, and am glad he's back. I'm not telling you to like him, but your opinion is not everyone's opinion.
"This Suruga guy" is the female depicted in my avatar, though I'll give you the benefit the doubt, as not all Lemmy apps show avatars. Mei Suruga was trained by Emi Sakura, has since become a trainer herself (and she's still in her 20's), and has wrestled all over the world, including (but not limited to) Stardom, TJPW, and AEW. And don't even start with your "I don't know them, so they don't matter" BS.
I would argue that anyone that doesn't need a championship doesn't need to be a wrestler. Championships represent something to be chased, to be earned, and to be lost. It's the physical representation of motivation. A personality can not be won or lost, and therefore cannot be a championship.
All you've really done is prove my point of everyone having different favorites.
We can either have diversity of opinions, and lots of championships to accommodate that, or you can get your ass on the QT Marshall hype train.
I put the last part in bold to emphasize sarcasm.
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