>Both shows share the entire roster.>Both belts appear on both shows>Merge WWE and WHC a thousand fucking times and then make another WHC>So many god damned champions no one knows who the fuck has a belt below WWE or WHCWhat the fuck is going on and why
Shut up
The champions of each brand are having a match at the Saudi show so they are building it. This causes retards to lose their mind. This happened before when it was Survivor Series
>>16118367I doubt it. They just brought back the WHC.I wonder if it's just relying on belts to sell ppvs or something.The writing isn't perfect but they shouldn't have to make every match a title match.Back in my day wrestlers just got mad at eachother for random shit and it drew dimes.
>>16118327It's absurd to have multiple world titles unless there are divisions. Either have a brand split, or even a weight split, or something. Or just have one unified WWE title and then mid and low card titles. There should be one top champion of WWE period.
>>16118918I agree but are they literally just doing it to make more people or matches seem important? Do they really NEED belts for that? Right or wrong, is that the reason behind it? If so why would that be a better approach than just one gigachamp?
>>16118918>have a brand splitRaw and Smackdown are separate brands you retard.
>>16119100The Intercontinental title used to be a big deal and thus could main event a house show if the world title was in a different city. Then the Intercontinental and US titles got watered down, so instead of building them back up they make another world title. Just how important big title matches are to attendance in 2024 is debatable but that might have been their thinking.
>>16118327is this gonna turn into one of those threads where someone says "jej" a thousand times?
>>16119720jej
But enough about AEW
>>16120109WWE still has more belts than this kek and they're adding two more in Saudi
>>16118327jej
This the jej thread?Jej
>>16118327as someone who only started watching wrestling this year, the belt lineage/continuity still really confuses mei understand the hierarchy of (men's singles) belts is universal champ > WHC > intercontinental > USA. but apparently the WHC is a mickey mouse nothing belt that they made to give raw a top level belt because they unified the previous WHC with the universal belt. but the previous WHC belt's lineage is still active and just defended along with the universal, but they don't even mention that anymore. so why don't they de-unify the original WHC from the universal belt and unify it with the mickey belt to restore some prestige to that title? why did they even unify them in the first place?
>>16120169That image is only mens titles,.retard
>>16120169No they're not retard
>>16118327whats a problem with this
>>16118327Universal title was and will always be gay and stupid. - Because no matter how much they are the same company, as a show RAW, SD, and NXT are separate entities, simultaneous running pocket universes with crossovers and such need individual grand prizes and "MacGuffins" to fight over. A bracelet, a reason for a feud, can service but as it is a show about a sport, a grand prize is required, side quest prizes like IC and US title can't function as such because of the way they were presented for decades before it. It meant that the shows main objective, the MacGuffin that supposed top dudes and main characters of that particular show are going for is locked behind one part-timers loose schedule. Like how Roman recently pulled it off, you can create a strong character if you can make his just slightly more frequent appearances than a boxing championship schedule work for you through strong side characters and stories eventually it will go stale, and while Roman was technically champ of both shows, he resided mostly as a SD champ leaving RAW with a champ sized hole in the run time.The other alternative is that you put it one show jumping overbooked motherfucker who will feel like he doesn't feel like either show because you see him everywhere and all his booking is noncommittal 2 weeks before PLE bullshit. This is what feels like when Cody comes to RAW now if you as a fan like that show better - Cody was the main guy there for a long time and now that he's "SD's champ" he might as well be holding a NXT belt or even TNA championship for all it matters for the scene on RAW because those titles are generally contested in RAW.
>>16118327All we ever needed was WWE, Intercontinental, and Tag TeamI guess nowadays a women's title makes sense too but only one
>>16119100I think a big part is also because Raw and Smackdown are different brands, sometimes even on different channels. Having a world champ on one channel but not the other would make the one without the world champ in the brand less valuable in case of TV deals, therefor having two top champs is a good idea to have, one for each brand to keep the value of both shows (when it comes to championships) relatively even and to not upset channel hosts by giving them the "lesser" show of the two that doesn't have the world champ on it.
>>16120314And yet it's still true kek>>16120339Yes they are. If you wanna count the trophy belts that the winners of the Owen Hart tournaments get then these Saudi ones damn sure count too
>>16121943Here's an actual count of currently defended titles. Not even going to count trophy belts or NXT/ROH in thisWWE>WWE championship>WWE world championship>WWE women's championship>WWE women's world championship>Intercontinental championship>United states championship>WWE tag team championship>WWE world tag team championship>WWE women's tag team championship>WWE speed championship>WWE speed women's championshipAEW>AEW world championship>AEW women's world championship>AEW tnt championship>AEW tbs championship>AEW international championship>AEW continental championship>AEW world tag team championship>AEW world trios championship11 to 8
>>16120305I don't think they spend that much time thinking about it. Dominik was on TV with NXT NA belt pointing out that North America is bigger than the USA.
>>16118327just want them in my mouth
>>16122444NEED her to fart in my face while I jerk my cock
>>16122025>counting speed titles that no one wears on tv>putting brand exclusive belts in the same countThe difference is AEW's belts are all defended on one show. Cut the speed crap and lump the top/mid/tag titles together and you get>WWE/WHC>womens WWE/WHC>IC/US>tag/world tag>women's tag5 to 8 per show
>>16122025wwe has a brand split, and lol including wwe sneed
>>16122025You forgot the WWE belts from that developmental show that outdraws Dynamite
>>16122489>not counting nxt or rohyou forgot how to read you dipshit dronie
>>16122477>>1612247811 to 8
>>16122618nah i just didnt bother actually reading your gay post lmao
>>16122665>you forgot to mention this>i t-totally didn't r-r-r-read what you p-p-postedlmfaooooooo
>>16119100The thing is they have done 1 world champion at many points in time, but ended up having to have a second world champion for one reason or another like in:2002 where they brought back the WCW title to be the World Heavyweight Championship because Brock became exclusive to SD2016 when they created the Universal Championship since Raw lost the WWE title in the Superstar Shakeup when Dean retained in the Shield Triple Threat2023 when Raw once again lost the WWE title after Reigns beat Brock at Mania in 2022 to unify the Universal and WWE titles and the USA Execs were none too pleased about Roman not working Mondays that much.
>>16122025the problem with this is that AEW have 3 mid-card belts in TNT, International & Continental, while WWE has one per brand, IC & USWWE split them apart by brands while AEW has them all on one. It muddies down AEW's mid-card excessively, making the mid-card completely flooded with belts for no reason instead of focusing on one and highlighting that one as the work horse title.Okada gets a title he barely defends, Jack Perry has some defenses occasionally, while the International gets the most attention out of all of them. Not to mention that the TBS title is also just a mid-card women's title, which is fine since they have no women's tag titles, I guess
