Lesnar and Orton reach 30 day championship rule

[theguruofgreatness]

so everyone knows the rule but if you dont it is "If a championship has not been defended within 30 days, the champion shall be stripped ... It has now been 30 days since" and Naomi was forced to relinquish her title because of it but Lesnar and Orton have not... thoughts?

[somsta]

That rule has never been consistently enforced. Like all things in wrestling they use it when it fits the story they want to tell.

[tigermaskxxxvii]

Naomi is another victim of the manocentric male-ocracy.

[Pushed to the Moon]

Maybe Orton can get away with it because he DOES have a title match lined up. It's not his fault he's not been booked to defend it sooner.

Brock on the other hand must have just gone back to his home planet.

[Hit Girl]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Naomi.

[cjh]

May 10, 2017 19:56:27 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

Maybe Orton can get away with it because he DOES have a title match lined up. It's not his fault he's not been booked to defend it sooner.

Brock on the other hand must have just gone back to his home planet.

Exactly.  If the GM doesn't book a champion in title defenses for whatever reason, why should the champion be punished for it?

[Push R Truth]

May 10, 2017 19:59:47 GMT -5 cjh said:

May 10, 2017 19:56:27 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

Maybe Orton can get away with it because he DOES have a title match lined up. It's not his fault he's not been booked to defend it sooner.

Brock on the other hand must have just gone back to his home planet.

Exactly.  If the GM doesn't book a champion in title defenses for whatever reason, why should the champion be punished for it?

You know... the one damn way Vince/HHH/Steph could have easily taken the title off anybody for years and nope... that's too easy!

They totally are Bond villains aren't they.

[hbkid718]

No offense, but I hate people that talk about the 30 day rule. It's not a real rule. Wrestling is scripted. There is no rule book. They only use it for storylines. Even if a wrestler is injured, it's better to use the 30 day rule & take the belt off of them to move the story along. In the case of Naomi, there was a better story in taking the title off of her and having her win the title she never lost in her hometown crowd at WrestleMania. Dean Ambrose also hasn't defended his title since Mania, so he's in the same book as Lesnar & Orton. And before Mania, Ambrose last defended his title on January 24, which is more than 30 days from April 2. They are not going to strip Lesnar of the Universal Title. There's no point in the story. It's better to build up his challengers until he wants to come back and face them.

[gbo86]

The best kayfabe argument I've heard in defense of Lesnar/Orton is that the 30 day rule is in reference to being physically unable to defend the title. Neither is unable to defend it, they just either have no challenger (Lesnar) or are scheduled for a defense in the near future (Orton). This is what I'm putting in my headcanon anyway.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

It doesn't apply if you went to OVW in 2002.

[Kevin Hamilton]

When times like this happen, if you listen closely, you can hear the ghost of Jack Tunney wail in anguish.

[xCompackx]

In my mind, the "30 day" rule only really applies to cases where someone couldn't defend the title due to injury or something. I'm sure they've used it for a bullshit excuse to strip a face of the championship, but I don't think it's meant to be a strict "you have to defend the championship within 30 days" thing, especially when Orton has a challenger at the next show which happens to take place after 30 days.

Lesnar, on the other hand, doesn't make any damn sense to me because he has contenders in Rollins and Balor so it's not even that he doesn't have an opponent; they just won't give him one.

[Woo]

Not having the champion defend the title in 30 days is just lazy writing. Why wasn't the House of Horrors for the title in kayfabe?

[Nikki Heyman]

May 10, 2017 20:48:38 GMT -5 Woo said:

Not having the champion defend the title in 30 days is just lazy writing. Why wasn't the House of Horrors for the title in kayfabe?

The Superstar shakeup and not having both "A" belts on Raw 

[abjordans]

Doesn't Orton probably defend the belt on the house show loop?

[Nikki Heyman]

May 10, 2017 20:50:50 GMT -5 abjordans said:

Doesn't Orton probably defend the belt on the house show loop?

It doesn't count unless it's on TV. That rule they tend to enforce more than the 30 day rule

[Just call me D.j.m.]

People still holding to this as if it were ever enforced consistently.

Geez.

[Rolent Tex]

I nominate one of the mods to go to Bork's house and inform him that he's being stripped of the title.

[tigermaskxxxvii]

When Brock Lesnar finally returns to television they should treat the WWE Universal Championship like Ric Flair's Real World's Championship. Including pixelating the title belt on TV.

[abjordans]

May 10, 2017 20:51:30 GMT -5 Nikki Heyman said:

May 10, 2017 20:50:50 GMT -5 abjordans said:

Doesn't Orton probably defend the belt on the house show loop?

It doesn't count unless it's on TV. That rule they tend to enforce more than the 30 day rule

I have always thought the house shows was there way around it in other instances of this happening. Not with Lesnar of course. I guess that could have just been something I made up in my head and turned to canon.