10 New Directions For WWE After Night Of Champions 2023

5. The Flagship With A Full-Time World Champ

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It's been a minute since Raw had a full-time World Champion to shout about.

You'd have to go all the way back to Bobby Lashley in early-2022 for that. He was supplanted by part-timer Brock Lesnar, then Roman Reigns won the belt at WrestleMania 38 and has almost-exclusively appeared on SmackDown (with a few exceptions here or there) ever since.

That all changed with the creation of WWE's new World Heavyweight Championship and Seth Rollins' win over AJ Styles in Saudi Arabia. Now, for the first time in a long time, the flagship TV show will have a proper World Champion to call its own. Somebody sound the trumpets.

Rollins was the right man to seize that strap first, and he'll act as a nice counterpoint to the heel Reigns as top champion over on Raw. Fingers crossed creative has a steady stream of fine challengers for Seth though; perhaps GUNTHER will even be in the running?

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