8 Pointless WWE Title Changes

Sasha Banks winning the Raw Women's Championship at SummerSlam, only to lose it back to the woman she beat, Alexa Bliss, just a week later, was yet another example of WWE playing hot potato with its title belts.

Whilst world championships only seem to change hands at major Network events, secondary, tag team, and women's titles are increasingly being passed around - often from one wrestler to another, then back to the original holder, all in the space of a couple of weeks.

Some fans fear that the belts will lose credibility by being so casually won and lost. Alexa, for example, has barely been on the main roster a year, yet she can already call herself a four-time champion - only three fewer than Trish Stratus managed in her entire career.

It has done wonders for the unpredictability of the product, though, to be fair, and from a realism standpoint it actually makes a lot of sense. Have four matches between two evenly-matched competitors and you're more likely to come out with a score of 2-2 than you are 3-1 or 4-0.

But aside from that, it's all rather pointless.

There's a long history of The Miz, Dolph Ziggler, and pointless Intercontinental Title changes, and it began at Night of Champions 2014, when Ziggler beat his opponent to win back the belt he himself had lost a month earlier at SummerSlam.

The following night on Raw, Ziggler - of course - dropped the championship back to the same man, with Miz in turn becoming a four-time champion to set up a feud with Cesaro at the following pay-per-view, Hell in a Cell.

In the age of monthly or bi-monthly Network events, occasional TV title changes ought to be welcomed, obviously, but one-day reigns do little to lift the credibility of secondary belts, which are passed around far more casually than their world counterparts.