One Of WWE's BIggest Problems Is Having Too Many Championships

Nineteen. That is the number of active championships in WWE today. No matter how big the promotion, no matter how many hours of weekly TV are produced, and now matter how many brands, nineteen is simply too large of a number. Winning a championship is supposed to feel special, as though a wrestler is reaching a pinnacle in their career, with a defining moment, but in WWE, those moments are far and few between when it comes to championship victories and reigns.

WWE’s Championship Belt Designs Are Lame

Due to WWE being a worldwide brand, it is important for their image to be front and center as often as they can put it there. That is why the WWE, Universal, Raw Women’s, and Smackdown Women’s championships all have the same center plate design, with the only varying element being the color of the backplate and belt strap. Doing this makes the championships feel less special. The same goes for the NXT Men’s and Women’s belts, as well as Tag Title designs across the company.

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A repetition of designs feels lazy, commercial, and makes them feel like a prop, unlike the great designs of belts from around the world and throughout history. If WWE had fewer belts, then the repeated designs might not feel so jarring, but with the brand split in 2016, WWE decided to create new belts which mimicked the existing ones, which aren’t the greatest designs in the world by any stretch. The preferred belt designs in the company come from NXT UK, which is the most neglected and ignored brand in all of WWE anyway, so people don’t take much notice of the championships there.

The Men’s Tag Team Title Problem

WWE has two men’s Tag Team Championships on its main roster, and simply not enough tag teams to challenge for them. The tag rosters on Raw and Smackdown are so thin that each week sees rematch after rematch, repetitive tiresome content, and no storyline focus. This makes having two belts a huge issue because instead of having a non-brand exclusive set of belts, the roster must be split up.

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If WWE were to do away with having two men’s tag titles, the tag team division could recover from the poor treatment it has received. Winning the belts would also be so much more special, due to their only being one prize at the end of a long climb to the top. More often than not, the champions lose in order to build up challengers, which when done too often is quite nonsensical, but it is done due to the lack of teams on each brand.

The Tag Team Championship Has Damaged The Women’s Division

When WWE introduced the Women’s Tag Team Championship, fans had a lot of expectations and hope. Women’s wrestling was and still is undergoing a boom period, taken seriously with the superstars treated like main eventers and draws. Bringing in some Tag Titles was the next step into establishing more equality within WWE. When Sasha Banks and Bayley won the belts, they promised to defend them on all brands – Raw, Smackdown, and NXT. Doing this was a great idea, making use of all women’s rosters, and not allowing the risk of having a thin tag division.

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What followed was a mess. WWE took the belts off the new champs quickly, barely featured them on NXT, and proceeded to mess up the tag team division, and instead use the belts as props to further singles feuds. WWE weren’t ready for a new championship like this, due to not booking long-term enough, nor utilizing NXT. Then the baffling decision was made for NXT to introduce their very own Women’s Tag Team Championship. NXT had an even thinner women’s division, so the titles currently sit as unimportant, messily booked, and afterthoughts, much like the main roster belts.

Midcard Titles Aren’t As Important As They Used To Be

The Intercontinental Championship used to be the sign that a wrestler was nearly ready for the main event. It acted as a tool to propel talents up the card, with a list of champions that is full of Hall of Famers. In recent times, the IC belt, along with the United States Championship have become forgotten about by WWE fans and the company itself. The champions aren’t presented as true champions, they lose all the time, and the belts don’t feel like coveted prizes. The same thing is happening in NXT too, with the North American Championship losing what made it special –establishing stars before going up to the main event scene.

This problem is once again caused by having far too many championships, as they don’t feel special, and WWE doesn’t put enough attention and care into each belt to make it mean something. Taking away a few championships will automatically make it feel more important and difficult to be a champion, adding more stakes into matches, and getting fans behind title changes and challengers. If they continue with the number of titles they have now, it will only get worse.