10 Ways Triple H's WWE Dream Became A Complete Nightmare

2. A True Secondary Title

The decision to have Roman Reigns walk out of WrestleMania 39 with both world titles intact left WWE with a dilemma: If you aren’t taking the titles off him until Mania 40 and he’s going to be a part-time champ, then you effectively don’t have a real world title scene.

Enter the World Heavyweight Championship.

By Triple H’s own admission when he unveiled the title this spring, this was a consolation prize, a title for everyone not named Roman to covet and chase. It felt like a surreal moment where he was saying the quiet part out loud: By not separating the titles at any point during the past year or having Cody Rhodes win at Mania, you were leaving your two world titles around a guy who now hasn’t defended the title(s) in more than 100 days.

Someday, the World Heavyweight Championship might become a true, valued title held in high regard. But every day that goes by now, it feels like a desperate course correction after a bad decision in April. Gunther’s Intercontinental Championship feels like the real prize on Raw, or even the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship given their recent trajectory.

This was a huge misfire that will take a lot of time and consistent effort to rectify. And it could have been easily avoided.