Belts: how many?

[Ass Dan]

From the responces I got in the MVP thread, I ask: how many belts should WWE have? If they continue current booking patters, that is.

They might as well have a 'Monster Championship' title to be faught between anyone over 350 lbs. If they are booked to be as strong as a bear that is as strong as two bears, they would go here.

RAW would have two titles: the Klique Championship (to be held by HHH, Shawn Michaels, and anyone they want to get over) and the Superman Championship (to be held exclucivley by John Cena).

What would you have if you could change belts without changing booking?

[Andrew is Good]

If I could be serious with the thread, lol, I think they should have it go like this.

1 World Title
3 Separate Show Titles (IC/US/ECW)
1 Set of Tag Team Titles
1 Women's Title

So 6 I guess, lol.

[Corporate H]

andrewisgood said:

If I could be serious with the thread, lol, I think they should have it go like this.

1 World Title
3 Separate Show Titles (IC/US/ECW)
1 Set of Tag Team Titles
1 Women's Title

So 6 I guess, lol.

Add the Television strap to ECW and that's my list.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

andrewisgood said:

If I could be serious with the thread, lol, I think they should have it go like this.

1 World Title
3 Separate Show Titles (IC/US/ECW)
1 Set of Tag Team Titles
1 Women's Title

So 6 I guess, lol.

I would add the cruiserwieght and kinda keep woman and Cruiserwieght not exclusive on Raw and SD respectively but more heavily featured on the one brand over the other.

[CJ Denton is Egon]

1 Grand Championship (all shows)
1 Tag Team Belt (All shows)
3 Show Championship Blets
3 Specal championships (RAW: Woman SD: Curserweaught ECW: Hardcore)

[brutuscheesecake]

3 belts (4 technically)

1 world title

1 IC title

1 tag team titles

I have never EVER given a shit about the eurotrash title, hardcore title, that wcw belt they still keep around, ecw title, those other tag team belts, the "tv" title (what the f*** does that mean anyway) womens title, or cruiserweight title.

[Just "Dan" is Fine, Thank You]

brutuscheesecake said:

I have never EVER given a crap about the eurotrash title, hardcore title, that wcw belt they still keep around, ecw title, those other tag team belts, the "tv" title (what the smurf does that mean anyway) womens title, or cruiserweight title.

"Strong words. Strong, bewildering words."

[xcv]

Only one. The WWE Championship! That goes for all wrestling, not just WWE. Even TNA wrestlers should hope to someday become the WWE Champion.

That might make the main event that much more exciting.

Only one Stanley Cup, only one World Series, only one Super Bowl, therefore only one WWE Championship! Make sense?

[The Blue Blazer]

All the belts they have now would be fine if they knew how to book them properly. I'm betting none of their writers can make it through GM Mode on SvR.

[EJS]

blueblazer said:

All the belts they have now would be fine if they knew how to book them properly. I'm betting none of their writers can make it through GM Mode on SvR.

I couldn't make it through two weeks.

But that's more because it's pure shit...

Their writers would probably make WWE drop to a regional fed in EWR/TEW, though.

[Mister Yummy]

I can't change the booking? Oh well.

The titles they have now are fine, but they need to have more story behind them.

The WWE World Heavyweight Championship(The one currently on RAW) needs a different Belt. It doesn't have to be a new one, just a different one. Go with the Big Eagle belt of the Attitude Era, with the new WWE Logo, or the Undisputer belt, or whatever, just get rid of that blingy peice of crap they use now. At least it doesn't spin anymore, but it does still say "CHAMP" and "MON. NITE" on it.

The (WCW) World Heavyweight Championship is fine, but they need a better looking replica of the Big Gold Belt to use.

Alternitavely, you could re-unify them and end the brand split, but that requires changing booking. A unified title doesn't work so well with a split roster, that's why they only did it for 2 months or so.

The ECW Championship(Is it still a world title?) is good, but ECW Should be treated as more seperate from the rest of the WWE. A second hour on Tuesdays would be great. Perhaps bring back the ECW World Television Championship(to be defended on Television for the smartass poster up above who doesn't undersatand the point of such a title. When you have one, the World Title is supposed to be for house shows, PPV's, and special occasions only).

The World Cruiserweight Title has been badly neglected for a long time. The worse part is that the division could be very strong, and bring Smackdown back from the crap they've fallen into. Oh well. At least get a champion!

The World Women's Title is doing well at the moment, on a strong wrestler who defends it regularly. The WWE Women's division sucks though. All the feuds are about who can be sluttier, and they have very few good wrestlers. Bring back Molly, Lita, Trish, Jaquiline, anyone who can wrestle!

The WWE World Tag Team Titles are looking good right now on Rhodes and Holly. I'd like to see TNT(Trevor Murdoch, who's a better Rhodes than Cody anyway, and Lance Cade for the uninnitiated) get them back though.

That's it for world titles. Let's look at the undercard titles.

The Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship looks strong, being on Jeff Hardy who's going straight up, but it sees little defense on television. Jeff's push may even be bad for the title, as there's no way to get it off of him without making him look bad and hurting his push.About all he can do is abandon it when he wins the big one, or never win the big one, and just elevate the IC Title. Which is more likely with today's booking :-(

The United States Heavyweight Title also looks good on MVP, who defends it more often than Jeff does his title, though also hardly ever on TV.

Finally, the Smackdown Tag Team Title. It was made to look like trash on ECW this week, when the champions were beated by a tag team that had never been together before in a non-title match. What's the deal with those anyway? Dreamer and the skinny guy should be Tag Team Champions! Was it non-0title because the match didn't take place on a Smackdown show? That would be the only way I could forgive such a discrepency.

Now, what titles would I add to the mix? Well, none really. If they were capanble of using midcard titles right, I'd suggest a undercard title to play around with. The return of the European Title or the WCW World Television Title might be good, in that event. I'd also enjoy seeing more weight division titles that are rarely defended. A WWE World Middleweight Title would be cool to see once a year or so. They could do the same thing with national titles(other than US), and regional titles(other than IC). A Mexican Heavyweight Champion that rarely makes a defense on TV, but defends at ever house show in Mexico would be cool, or a Missouri State Champion, or a Canadian Champion, or anything.

[Mr. Mediocre]

andrewisgood said:

If I could be serious with the thread, lol, I think they should have it go like this.

1 World Title
3 Separate Show Titles (IC/US/ECW)
1 Set of Tag Team Titles
1 Women's Title

So 6 I guess, lol.

I agree with this man and came in to say this. If they want to bring in the cruiserweight for 7, that's fine.

[RedSmile]

I would unify the World titles into one world championship

Make the IC title the RAW exclusive title

Make the US title SD exclusive

Unify the Tag Belts

Make the Womens title all-brand

I am all for a TV championship, but its kind of pointless if you regularly have World title matches in the main events of RAW and SD. The Main Events of RAW and SD should involve the undercard and Tag titles

[Shockmaster's Son]

WWE Champion
Intercontinental Champion
Tag Team Champions
Womens Title

That's it. Less is more. Merge the brands or have one roving champion, I don't care. If WWE had not botched the invasion and legimitately forged ahead with plans to ressurect the WCW brand and keep it separate, to build to perhaps one supercard per year, I'd have no problem with having two World titles. Having three is disgusting, especially when they make no effort to keep the brands truly separate.

[azz0r]

World Heavyweight Championship (SMACKDOWN)
WWE Heavyweight Championship (RAW)
ECW Championship (ECW)

TriBrand
WWE Womens Championship
Intercontinental Championship
Tag Team Championship

[GaTechGrad]

I remember after the "WCW Invasion" there were like 20 title belts... that was too many.

[Erik Majorwitz]

No more brand extension. If you want a billion belts, than make ECW and WCW, er Smackdown true "promotions" again.

[salTy]

1 World Championship
1 Upper Mid-card Championship
1 Lower Mid-card Championship
1 Tag Team Championship
1 Women's Championship

Don't merge the brands, but have the belts defended on ALL the shows.

[Tapout]

THE BRAND EXTENSION WILL NOT END.

That said,

2x "World" titles (1 top title for each brand)
-Raw world title picture
-Cena
-Michaels
-HHH
-Jeff Hardy
-JBL
-Jericho
-Orton
-Kennedy (maybe)
-Umaga (maybe)
-Smackdown world title picture
-Edge
-Undertaker
-"Big" Dave Batista
-Mysterio
-Finlay
-Khali
-Flair(?)
1x ECW title
-Chavo
-CM Punk
-Dreamer
-Morrison
-Stevie
1x Tag Title - build an actual tag division to wrestle across all 3 shows:
-Moore Wang
-Londrick
-Jesse & Festus
-Highlanders
-Cadeoch
-Deuce & Domino
-Cody & Baldcore
-For laughs, Duggan & Super Crazy
1x IC title - have this be a midcard title that gets defended across all 3 brands. This will also help distinguish the IC title from the world titles better because there will only be one midcard title, while each of the 3 brands has its own top title.
-MVP
-Matt Hardy
-Shelton
-Elijah
-Big Daddy Mabel
-Mizark
-Carlito
-Santino
-Kennedy (maybe)
-Umaga (maybe)

[JMA]

tapout said:

THE BRAND EXTENSION WILL NOT END.

Everything eventually ends--even the universe. Therefore, the brand extension will end someday as well.

Having said that:

WWE Championship
Intercontinental Championship
Tag Team Championship
Women's Championship