10 Most Disrespected Titles In WWE History
Prizes that aren't worth winning.
Once upon a time, a wrestling title was the be-all and end-all of sports entertainment. The champ commanded the biggest purses, headlined any card going, and was by definition the top star of the business.
If belts don’t hold such importance nowadays, when used right, they can elevate stories greatly. Roman Reigns, Gunther, Bianca Belair - all three have seen their status buoyed or cemented by lengthy, engaging runs holding titles that meant something - and therein lies the rub. It’s tricky to build a championship - but incredibly easy to ruin it.
Throughout WWE’s history, plenty of titles have been introduced only to be wasted, squandered, or treated with outright contempt. These can be belts designed for a quick pop then swiftly forgotten, or solid ideas that don’t have the roster to back them up. In some occasions, they’re outright jokes.
In some instances, these titles were never going to be more than a quick bit of fun, but in others they reflect the worst of WWE - sloppy booking, lack of forethought, grubby politics. A wrestling championship should be more than a mere prop - in some instances, it’s a whole lot less.
10. Women’s Tag Team Championship
Perhaps the most cursed titles currently on offer, the Women’s Tag belts got off to a solid start, with Bayley and Sasha Banks triumphing in an Elimination Chamber match to decide the inaugural holders. The pair of Horsewomen vowed to legitimise the nascent belts, which they lost six weeks later to the IIconics.
From there, the curse has been real. The belts have fallen victim to a cavalcade of reign-ending injuries, with Sonya Deville most recently falling foul of the hex. Beyond that, there’s the usual selection of matches thrown together with no build, Can They Co-exist?, and multi-man matches that often don’t deliver.
Most problematic is creative’s propensity for throwing teams together at random. During the championship’s run, the number of actual, established duos can be counted on two hands. Instead, WWE jams together whichever workers have nothing else on - Chelsea Green and Piper Niven, why not? - and the results speak for themselves.
Unlike plenty other belts on this list, there’s no reason the Women’s Tag Team Championship shouldn’t work - but the same mistakes seem to transpire over and again.