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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2015 11:57:33 GMT -5
The men have a WORLD title, so why not the ladies?
I can understand NXT since it's a developmental organization, but even they are travelling outside their boundaries now.
In the history or the Divas/Womens title it was never considered WORLD yet the company does travel worldwide on tours.
Anyone?
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Dec 23, 2015 11:58:46 GMT -5
Vince couldn't understand the concept of women fighting in UFC, something tells me he's not too receptive of the idea of a woman being considered a world champion.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2015 12:34:30 GMT -5
I always thought it was funny they even needed to say "Women's Champion" or "Divas Champion."
Couldn't they just say "World Champion" for who ever has the belt?
Its not like people are gonna look at Reigns and go, "Hold up. Is he the women's champ or the men's champ?"
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Post by Session Moth is over on Dec 23, 2015 16:31:43 GMT -5
I always considered it a world title for women, it didn't need 'world" in the name.
For years the top title for men was known just as the WWE Championship and that was always a world title.
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Post by moondoggie on Dec 23, 2015 16:50:01 GMT -5
Vince couldn't understand the concept of women fighting in UFC, something tells me he's not too receptive of the idea of a woman being considered a world champion. Vince McMahon I feel is in the same boat as those guys who think a womans place is cooking and cleaning |
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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Dec 23, 2015 16:54:37 GMT -5
The men have a WORLD title, so why not the ladies? I can understand NXT since it's a developmental organization, but even they are travelling outside their boundaries now. In the history or the Divas/Womens title it was never considered WORLD yet the company does travel worldwide on tours. Anyone? WWE did try calling the Women's Title the "Women's World Title" in late 2002 on the Raw brand, JR would reference it as such on commentary, as would Bischoff. I guess with bringing in a World Heavyweight title and rebranding the tag titles as the "World Tag Team Title" they wanted to differentiate from SmackDown using the "WWE" branding. Didn't last long though. As I recall Jazz once saying, there is no "men's title" in WWE. There is a women's title and there's a World title. I guess in kayfabe, there's nothing stopping a Diva challenging for the World title. |
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Post by Mayonnaise on Dec 23, 2015 17:15:27 GMT -5
I don't think they use "World" for any title but the WWE WHC. I don't think any of the NXT title have it nor the WWE Tag Team titles. Just one of their little quirks to make a title seem more important.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2015 20:09:45 GMT -5
I think most people don't care.
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Post by the2ndevil on Dec 23, 2015 21:50:43 GMT -5
The men have a WORLD title, so why not the ladies? I can understand NXT since it's a developmental organization, but even they are travelling outside their boundaries now. In the history or the Divas/Womens title it was never considered WORLD yet the company does travel worldwide on tours. Anyone? WWE did try calling the Women's Title the "Women's World Title" in late 2002 on the Raw brand, JR would reference it as such on commentary, as would Bischoff. I guess with bringing in a World Heavyweight title and rebranding the tag titles as the "World Tag Team Title" they wanted to differentiate from SmackDown using the "WWE" branding. Didn't last long though. As I recall Jazz once saying, there is no "men's title" in WWE. There is a women's title and there's a World title. I guess in kayfabe, there's nothing stopping a Diva challenging for the World title. Chyna was briefly number one contender for Stone Cold's WWF Championship. |
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Post by ________ has left the building on Dec 23, 2015 22:00:02 GMT -5
Divas World? Isn't that the site that photoshop the Divas as fat?
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Post by edgestar on Dec 23, 2015 22:24:34 GMT -5
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Post by Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer on Dec 24, 2015 2:47:56 GMT -5
WWE did try calling the Women's Title the "Women's World Title" in late 2002 on the Raw brand, JR would reference it as such on commentary, as would Bischoff. I guess with bringing in a World Heavyweight title and rebranding the tag titles as the "World Tag Team Title" they wanted to differentiate from SmackDown using the "WWE" branding. Didn't last long though. As I recall Jazz once saying, there is no "men's title" in WWE. There is a women's title and there's a World title. I guess in kayfabe, there's nothing stopping a Diva challenging for the World title. Chyna was briefly number one contender for Stone Cold's WWF Championship. And it's rarely mentioned that Stephanie McMahon is the only female to have had a WWE Championship match. She was in a triple threat with Triple H and Jericho on the Draft 2002 episode of Raw. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2015 6:35:18 GMT -5
If female wrestlers outside of the E were called Divas, then sure...
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 24, 2015 6:43:38 GMT -5
Like when someone calls Roman "WWE Champion", I think the "World" is implicit.
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Post by ICBM on Dec 24, 2015 7:47:16 GMT -5
WWE does not care about the implied or accepted message about world title status. They are concerned with branding and marketing. Titles are prop pieces in their shows. This is a change they fostered to seperate the WWF/WWE brand from other promotions long ago. When it stopped being an entertaining sport and became sports entertainment, the need to legitimize their titles with sports centric logic ceased to exist. The name of the title simply delineates what segment of the show you are now supposed to be paying attention to (three rings of the
circus theory).
That isn't a knock on this method in any way. It was smart and as this is now industry standard (think hardcore titles, x-div titles etc.Vs US or cruiserweight titles), it shows how strong WWE's branding was and is via its influence
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Dec 24, 2015 7:54:09 GMT -5
Chyna was briefly number one contender for Stone Cold's WWF Championship. And it's rarely mentioned that Stephanie McMahon is the only female to have had a WWE Championship match. She was in a triple threat with Triple H and Jericho on the Draft 2002 episode of Raw. I know we joke about this kind of thing happening again because of her current on-screen character... But it is funny to think that at one point, she was legitimately one lucky three-count away from technically being the world's top professional wrestler.  |
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